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Iran providing Taliban with ‘advanced’ weapons? Afghan officials blame Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard for providing weapons to Taliban
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Iran providing Taliban with ‘advanced’ weapons? Afghan officials blame Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard for providing weapons to Taliban

The Iranian regime has been providing advanced weapons including night vision equipment, lethal bombs and heavy weaponry to the Taliban, as per a report in Pakistan Forward. Several military officials on condition of anonymity shared intelligence and security reports from last month that say members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have been leading the Taliban in Afghanistan's western region. A Taliban commander apparantly smuggled three poisonous gas balloon bombs from Iran into Bala Buluk district of Farah province on April 30, according to one of the security reports. The report also mentions that Taliban had plotted to poison Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers in the district with the balloon bombs as a prelude to an attack on a military compound, but sec...