Iran rejects supporting ‘Taliban terrorist group’

Iran has rejected a claim by the “Taliban terrorist group” that the outfit has “relations” with the Islamic Republic.​

Speaking on Monday, Bahram Qassemi, the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, said the claim is “a pre-meditated attempt” by “the terrorist-nurturing sponsors of the terrorist group” of Taliban, to trigger Iranophobic perceptions.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran has always had a pioneering role among regional countries in the fight against terrorist groups, and has so far sustained much material and immaterial costs in the fight against those groups,” Qassemi said.

The claim that Iran is supporting the Taliban group is “an obvious lie,” the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

Qassemi said the anti-Iran claim is a “spiteful attempt to distract the public opinion of the world away from the Al Saud crimes of massacring the innocent people of Yemen.”

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