The Kabul-based Iran embassy said that establishing a regional contact group is aimed at cooperating with the Taliban. Speaking at the 40th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution at the embassy, the country’s ambassador and special representative for Afghanistan said that Afghanistan is a focus of the international community. “The first and foremost goal of the contact group is to provide cooperation with the current government in Afghanistan to achieve security and political stability and also to help the country for the betterment of the economy,” said Hassan Kazemi Qomi, the ambassador and special envoy of Iran for Afghanistan. Hassan Kazemi Qomi accused the US of preventing the development of Afghanistan during their twenty-year presence in the country and said that Washington paid no attention to the development and infrastructure of Afghanistan. The Iranian diplomat said that Afghanistan with its ample of resources, has the potential to meet not only its own needs but the needs of other countries as well. According to him, Tehran has inked good economic and trade agreements with the caretaker government of Afghanistan. “Afghanistan and Iran have potential capacity in the areas of industry, technology, transit, mines, agriculture, water, and energy. The countries, as big economies … Continue reading Irans’s Regional Contact Group for ‘Cooperation’ with Kabul