“Why Iran Will Welcome the Taliban Takeover in Afghanistan,” Shelly Kittleson, Foreign Policy, August 18, 2021.  “Tehran’s Shiite regime has strategic, economic, ideological, and ecological reasons for backing Sunni extremists.”

“With the United States out of Afghanistan, Iran will be able to give greater supplies of money and arms to the Taliban and al Qaeda — elements of support that these terrorists could use against the Afghan people and even to launch another attack on the West. The risks speak to a key reason why the U.S. should have stayed in Afghanistan.”  See “Iran benefits from Taliban takeover,” Jackson Richman, op-ed, Washington Examiner, August 18, 2021.