{"id":83852,"date":"2017-01-23T08:19:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T08:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/iran-arming-taliban-in-helmand\/"},"modified":"2017-01-23T08:19:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T08:19:31","slug":"iran-arming-taliban-in-helmand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/iran-arming-taliban-in-helmand\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Iran arming Taliban in Helmand\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2017\/jan\/23\/Taliban.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LASHKARGAH (SW): The provincial government of Helmand has blamed Iran for arming the Taliban militants, but the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said it does not have evidence yet.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial governor Hayatullah Hayat said on Sunday that a number of foreign individuals from Iran and Pakistan had come to the Garmsir district. &ldquo;They have been seen visiting a number of areas together with the Taliban&rdquo;, Hayat said. He added further investigations are underway.<\/p>\n<p>The governor added that the officials have recovered at least two Iran-made rockets that were fired by the Taliban at the provincial capital Lashkargah. Hayat said four Pakistani militants have been killed in the province in an air strike last week.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials claim more than one hundred Iranians visited Garmsir three days ago, and they viewed the situation of frontlines along with the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mohammad Radmansh, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense (MoD), told Salam Watandar no solid evidence is available yet to prove Iran&rsquo;s interference in this regard. &ldquo;We are utilizing all our resources to safeguard the territorial integrity and security of Afghanistan&rdquo;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LASHKARGAH (SW): The provincial government of Helmand has blamed Iran for arming the Taliban militants, but the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said it does not have evidence yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-83852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}