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Iran Backs Taliban with Cash and Arms
(Wall Street Journal) Margherita Stancati - When Abdullah, a Taliban commander in central Afghanistan, needs more rifles and ammunition, he turns to the same people who pay his $580-a-month salary: his Iranian sponsors. "Iran supplies us with whatever we need," he said. Afghan and Western officials say Tehran has quietly increased its supply of weapons, ammunition and funding to the Taliban, and is now recruiting and training their fighters.