KABUL (Dispatches) – Iran’s ambassador to Afghanistan said Friday Washington’s main goal in invading the Central Asian country was to contain its neighbors.
“Americans came to Afghanistan under the pretext of confronting terrorism but their main aim was to contain and dominate the neighboring countries,” Hassan Kazemi-Qomi told Al-Alam TV.
“Their first excuse for choosing Afghanistan for the invasion was the existence of terrorism and Al-Qaeda while the group came to Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks,” he said.
The Americans are pursuing their plans through occupation and military presence while Al-Qaeda is carrying out its assigned missions as a proxy, he added.
“The Americans brought Daesh to Afghanistan,” he said, warning that the U.S. is “trying to further its plans in Afghanistan through this proxy war.”
The U.S. invaded Afghanistan in October 2001 following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, despite the fact that no Afghan national was involved in the attacks. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans died in the US war of aggression on the country.
American forces occupied the country for about two decades on the pretext of fighting the Taliban, but as the U.S. forces left Afghanistan, the Taliban stormed Kabul in August last year.