are the taliban in iran?
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According to Saudi Arabia, Afghan Senate members certified the existence of documents which affirm that the Taliban collected endorsements from both Iran and Russia. Thus members of the Taliban are located in the cities of Mashhad, Yazd and Kerman in Iran.
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Prior to 1979, Iran had its political system as a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy with parliamentary system. ... While the political system is secular in nature, it has been described as authoritarian in the later years of the Imperial State.
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Hezbollah does not reveal its manpower and estimates vary widely. In 2017, Jane's assessed that Hezbollah had more than 25,000 full-time fighters and perhaps 20,000–30,000 reservists. They are financed in part by Iran and trained by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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Iran is unique in the Muslim world because its population is overwhelmingly more Shia than Sunni (Shia constitute 95% of the population) and because its constitution is theocratic republic based on rule by a Shia jurist.
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Syria. Syria and Iran are strategic allies. Syria is often called Iran's "closest ally", the Arab nationalism ideology of Syria's ruling Baath party notwithstanding.
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Iran was never colonized by European powers, but this did not protect it from the colonial reach of the United Kingdom. In the late nineteenth century, the British-India Company had established a monopoly over tobacco trade in Iran, at the expense of the local merchant class.
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Soleimani had a significant role in Iran's fight against ISIL in Iraq. He was described as the "linchpin" bringing together Kurdish and Shia forces to fight ISIS, overseeing joint operations conducted by the two groups.
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Afghanistan and Iran have been persuaded to cooperate with each other in reciprocal beneficial ways due to worsening economic conditions, according to the diplomat. According to the Washington Post, towards the end of 2018, Iran's military said that it was taking over the security of the Iran and Afghanistan border.
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International organization membership. International organization membership of Iran The Islamic Republic of Iran is a member of: Colombo Plan (CP) Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO)
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Iran is a charter member of the United Nations (UN). Although it belongs to all UN specialized agencies, the Republic has not participated as actively as the monarchy in the world organization.
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The Air Force has attempted with some success to maintain in service the large number of American-built aircraft which Iran acquired during the Shah's regime. ... As of June 2019, the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force possesses 350 fighters, making it the ninth largest air arm in the world, as per Global Firepower.
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The Kurds of Iran are predominantly Sunni, although the religious factor is not a determining factor in the political identification of the Kurds of Iran as shown by the national awakening of the Shiite Kurds of the provinces of Ilam and Kermanshah in the last years.
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Has Persia/Iran ever been colonized? - Quora. The present day Iran, in written history, has been conquered and run by Alexander the great, Arabs, Turks, Mongols, more Turks and Afghans but never 'colonised' in strict modern sense of the term.
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Armenians are, Chaldeans are, Kurds are. Not Assyrians. ... Our leaders have called on Turkey to admit the Armenian genocide. And the Armenians are amazing, having helped kurds fleeing the Turks, and today many kurds and armenians live side by side in peace, in Kurdistan occupied by Turkey and in Armenia.
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Pashtun society is not homogenous by religion: the overwhelming majority of them are Sunni, with a tiny Shia community (the Turi and partially the Bangash tribe) in the Kurram and Orakzai agencies of FATA, Pakistan. Pakistani Jews and Afghan Jews, have largely relocated to Israel and the United States.
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Why Iran Is Not an Arab Country. Given its location in the Middle East, Muslim majority, and language which resembles Arabic, Iran is often mislabeled as an Arab nation. A cognate of “aryan,” Iran means “land of the Aryans” and is excluded from the list of Arab League nations in the Middle East/North Africa region.
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Reis alleen als het noodzakelijk is naar de grensgebieden met Afghanistan, Kirgizië en Oezbekistan. Er is in deze gebieden een hoger risico op (terroristische) aanslagen dan in andere gebieden in Tadzjikistan. Ook liggen er mijnen en zijn er gewapende groepen actief.