Friday, 20 August 2021 (YJC)_ Iranian Foreign Minister blasted the US and NATO for the irreparable damages they have inflicted on Afghanistan.
In a message on his twitter account, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif blasted the US and NATO for the irreparable damages they have inflicted on neighboring Afghanistan after invading and occupying the country.
"For all their talk of democracy & War on Terror, events in Afghanistan & statements by US & NATO officials prove: They invaded & occupied Afghanistan & elsewhere ONLY to pursue their own interests—but couldn't even achieve that," Zarif wrote.
He went on to refer to the two-decade-long occupation of Afghanistan by the US and NATO and wrote “US/NATO now have clear obligation to compensate.”
Previously, in relevant remarks Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said the Zionist regime will have the same fate of the US after its withdrawal from Afghanistan, while referring to the US "humiliating" withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“The end of any occupation is a humiliating expulsion,” Shamkhani wrote on his twitter page, while adding that “The fate of the US in Vietnam and Afghanistan will be the unchangeable fate of the occupying Zionist regime too.”
The collapse of the Afghan government and rapid takeover of the country by the Taliban ahead of the US withdrawal of the last troops there has led to finger-pointing across the federal government, with members of both parties blaming their political opponents for the chaos that unfolded over the weekend.
US President Joe Biden on Monday defended his decision to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan, and said he inherited the situation from former President Donald Trump, whose administration negotiated a deal with the Taliban and pledged all US forces would be out of the country by May 1.