BigMela2onin
Registered Member
While that's a plausible explanation, it is equally plausible they let the Taliban do it.
Iran Foreign Policy and Doctrine
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While that's a plausible explanation, it is equally plausible they let the Taliban do it.
hyperman
INT'L MOD
Why would they not hand him over in that case?
hyperman
INT'L MOD
Why give him asylum then in the first place? They still should be aware of foreign agents inside the country better, especially around a political asylum person. Usually these type of people are monitored by counter intelligence.
Khorasan Black Flags
Trusted Member
Persian Gulf
INT'L MOD
do you know how many Afghans are in Iran? protecting all the former Afghan army or police members among those 5-10 million Afghans is not a priority
hyperman
INT'L MOD
If the man is important enough for them to send a intelligence unit to go carry out assassinations, surely he would qualify. The bigger question is how does the Taliban has freedom to operate inside Iran with such ease, the ability to send entire teams with weaponry to set up recon planning then the ambush itself, carry out operations then exit, all without detection of the authorities knowing what happened, let alone arresting them. If someone can do this, then really any intelligence element can do it and even to Iranian citizens.
Persian Gulf
INT'L MOD
important enough to the Taliban, not to Iran
Iranian intelligence agencies should protect people important to Iran, not to Afghanistan
they epically fail in that regard but it's still an important difference
low tier targets can be killed in virtually any country in the world. Iran assassinated a number of dissident terrorists even in Europe in the past decades. Russia does the same.
hyperman
INT'L MOD
Who has Iran killed in the US or Israel?
Persian Gulf
INT'L MOD
what does that have to do with Afghanistan? where did I claim Iran's ability to kill people in the US or Israel is on par with their ability to kill people in Iran?
hyperman
INT'L MOD
Thats my point, states who have robust counterintelligence capacities who aren't completely penetrated don't have such things happen to them in such a way where things aren't detected, not saying they foil every plot but more often that not they are able to prevent or atleast catch perpetrators.
Sarhang
Registered Member
Bakhtiar was a terrorist?
BigMela2onin
Registered Member
Iran wants good relations with the Taliban but handing over asylees for execution worsens your international image.
hyperman
INT'L MOD
So you let them treat your sovereignty like a joke and have them execute them on your soil without you knowing?
You don't even need to hand them over, you can expel them, tell them to go to a different country like Tajikistan or elsewhere.
And even if you sent them to Afghanistan, so what? "International Image" who would think less of Iran? A bunch of these countries send Uygurs back to China, and they kill their own dissidents, the ones who would complain already hate Iran to begin with, and the ones that don't wouldn't care either way.
BigMela2onin
Registered Member
Well Iran is already a joke, they don't really care what happens inside the country to random Afghans. Like I said, it's equally plausible they had no knowledge or ability to stop it or that they just didn't care to try
Persian Gulf
INT'L MOD
he was not, but he is another example of a successful IRI assassination in Europe (France), despite being under heavy protection. Ahmad Mola Nissi killed in the Netherlands and the KDPI leaders killed in Greece were terrorists
Arab nationalist shot dead in Netherlands
Ahmad Mola Nissi established group seeking separate state in oil-rich Iranian province
www.independent.co.uk
