After weeks of dubious media reports surrounding allegations Russia had offered bounties to Afghan militants to attack US forces, the story has moved on, and is now accusing Iran of doing the exact same thing.
The evidence doesn’t seem to be any better than it was in Russia, based on speculation, though media reports are now trying to hinge the story on military intelligence reports saying Iran might’ve conceivably paid bounties to the Haqqani Network.
This speculation appears to be built entirely on the fact that the Haqqanis were blamed for an attack on Bagram. Since the attack happened, and the report operated on the assumption Iran might’ve wanted it, they speculated that money might’ve been paid.
Yet once again, the evidence is non-existent, and the media is reaching heavily to find a way to tie all this together, noting the US claimed Iran-Taliban ties in assassinating Gen. Qassem Soleimani, which happened well after the Bagram incident.
farcical that anyone would require a bounty to kill an amerikan mercenary
Taliban have been happy to do it free for years what a BS claim by rogue media
This supposedly happened in December. Where does Iran get the resources to do all the things that we accuse them of doing? We keep bragging about how our “maximum pressure” campaign has completely devastated their economy and yet they can pay bounties to the Taliban, back the Houthis in Yemen, back Hamas and Hezbollah, and have bases spread all over Syria. Maybe we should ask them how they can spread that paltry defense budget of theirs so well as to to challenge the world’s only military superpower who spends the equivalent of their yearly defense budget in about a week.