By Banafsha Binesh in ToloNews, July 10, 2023 at 8:59 PM
Islamic Emirate spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid on Twitter denied the remarks of the US House of Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, who said the “Taliban” is selling weapons left behind by foreign troops to Washington’s “adversaries like Iran and the Palestinians against Israel.”
In an interview with the CNN’s State of the Union program, Mc Caul claimed that the “Taliban” are selling the weapons left by the foreign troops to Washington’s “adversaries like Iran and the Palestinians against Israel.”
Mujahid said that these “allegations” are untrue and that after the Islamic Emirate came to power, all of the military equipment has been maintained.
“Such propaganda is the plot of those tension-seeking circles who cannot tolerate the ongoing stability in Afghanistan and make propaganda against it,” Mujahid said.
Mc Caul told the CNN: “We should not have abandoned Bagram where we have over $7 billions of taxpayer weapons left behind that now, by the way, the Taliban are selling to our adversaries like Iran and the Palestinians against Israel.”
Political analyst, Asadullah Nadim, said that the remarks of the American officials are mainly reflecting the election competition in the US.
“The allegation that the American weapons are being provided to other powers and foreign organizations, is mainly reflecting the election and party competition in the US,” he said.
McCaul reacted to US President Joe Biden’s recent remarks on al-Qaeda in Afghanistan saying: “It is devoid of reality,” and “the President of the United States would have [to] be so disillusioned about what is happening on the ground in Afghanistan.”
Earlier, US President Joe Biden said he was right when he said to “ask for help from the Taliban” and that “al-Qaeda would not be in Afghanistan.”
“This is a huge foreign policy blunder,” McCaul said, adding: “It’s a bit bizarre to me that a president would be so devoid of his own foreign policy, and he just really wants to sweep Afghanistan under the rug,”
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