Iran falsely tries to spin al-Qaida as U.S. proxy and pin Islamic State on Washington, ignoring the terrorist groups' actual history of operations in Afghanistan.
Iranian president’s special envoy on Afghanistan affairs
The envoy said the United States was pursuing its plans while al-Qaida was carrying out its assigned missions as a “proxy.” The U.S. and its allies launched their invasion of Afghanistan with the goal of neutralizing al-Qaida and its co-founder, Osama bin Laden, who helped mastermind the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.
In October 1999, the U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution 1267, creating the so-called al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee. A Taliban fighter holds a poster of late Afghan leader of the Haqqani network Jalaluddin Haqqani, while chanting victory slogans at the Ahmad Shah Massoud Square near the US embassy in Kabul on August 15, 2022.
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