Iran's President Rohani needs to meet with Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghanit.

The Taliban are using the Iranian border to strengthen and attack innocent Afghan districts. I would hope President Rohani would find a common and stabilized border with Afghanistan better policy than an unstable border potentially used for drug and arms smuggling.

I sincerely doubt the Iranian government wants to bring suffering to the people of Afghanistan by further violence by the Taliban.

May 21, 2018

Taliban fighters (click here) closed in on another district in Afghanistan on Sunday as officials sought to reassure an increasingly angry public that security would improve.

On Sunday, the insurgents were besieging the governor’s compound in Ajrestan district in Ghazni, south of the capital Kabul, although officials said reinforcements had arrived and were relieving police defending the town.

The fighting in Ghazni, which has long had a heavy Taliban presence, follows several days of fighting in Farah province, on the other side of Afghanistan on the border with Iran where the insurgents came close to overrunning the provincial capital.

General John Nicholson, the top US commander in Afghanistan visited Farah on Saturday with the ministers of the interior and defense and the head of the NDS intelligence service.

“Farah did not fall and Farah will never fall,” he said, calling on the Taliban to accept President Ashraf Ghani’s offer of peace talks.

“We will stay with you until we bring this war to a peaceful conclusion,” he said.

He met local officials in the governor’s compound and heard a bitter litany of complaints about the failure of the government to protect the city and the province, where the Taliban control many areas....