This week, Iran has restarted fuel exports to Afghanistan, which had been disrupted by fighting between the Taliban and forces under the now ousted Afghan government, Tehran traders and former U.S. officials say. . their lucrative narcotics operations.
The growing trade relationship between Tehran and the Taliban threatens to undermine major U.S. pressure campaigns against both.
Iran has been cut off from the world market by the green dollar by US sanctions and the Taliban’s willingness to negotiate with its neighbors gives Iran rare access to the US dollar it needs to import essential goods and strengthen its currency. depreciated.
Meanwhile, the deal allows the Taliban, who are also cut off from trade and finance by international sanctions, to buy vital commodities to keep the declining Afghan economy running.
Iranian traders, who were selling to Afghan businessmen under U.S.-backed government in Kabul, stopped sending refined oil to their eastern neighbor this summer after escalating fighting between the army Afghan national and the Taliban.