The peace talks between the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan and the Taliban in Tehran, which took place from January 8 to 10 this year, caused a great deal of controversy in the community. Some criticized the talks, saying that to seat with an illegitimate group at the negotiating table was the defeat of the Resistance Front's Emir, Ahmad Massoud.
But Dr. Yaqub Laith Saffar says that Ahmad Massoud won the negotiations and showed wise leadership.
Author: Dr. Yaqub Laith Saffar
First: It's about why Ahmad Masood, the leader of the FNSA, should not negotiate with the Emirate. Many argue that the Taliban should only be spoken to in the language of weapons, as they do not understand any other language except this one.
Second, every resistance and every front has its own history. The Second National Resistance Front today follows in the footsteps of the first National Resistance. The first resistance had the legitimacy of the heroic leadership of Rabbani and the charismatic command of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the National Hero.
Third: The Second National Resistance Front does not have the charismatic and international legitimacy of the First Resistance. The second resistance must at least form leadership and use it to achieve important diplomatic and military strategies.
Fourth: Ahmad Massoud in the Tehran negotiations with the mediation of the Islamic Republic of Iran, showed his first record of ingenious leadership and wisdom and achieved national, regional, and possibly international achievements.
Fifth: In the main dimension of his front, he handed over the chairmanship of the negotiating team to Amir Ismail Khan. This decision proved that he has the approval of the leadership and the people of the southwest within the leadership of the National Resistance Front. It is that he knows the etiquette of national diplomacy well, and he comes from a noble family and a great civilization.
Sixth: In the national dimension, the presence of the diplomatic apparatus of the Taliban Emirate to negotiate with the board of the National Resistance Front means that they have recognized this front as a strong and influential political and military rival. While the Taliban claim that there is no resistance even in a village.
Seventh: In the regional dimension, the achievement of these negotiations is that the Islamic Republic of Iran has recognized the National Resistance Front and its leadership. Iran has mediated after consultation with Russia and China. And this means the regional recognition of the National Resistance Front in the political and military dimensions.
Eighth: The recognition of the National Resistance Front is not limited to Iran, and sooner or later Russia will mediate, which is itself a strengthening of the international recognition of the Resistance Front.
Ninth: The Resistance Front needs a propaganda front to show these great achievements to the nation and the world.
Tenth: The latest achievement is that Iran has promised the National Resistance Front in the presence of both negotiating delegations not to recognize the Taliban mono-ethnic government.
These negotiations show that Ahmad Massoud has followed in the footsteps of the National hero and he is a wise, realistic leader with regional credibility. Unlike the enemies who consider him an inexperienced young man. I congratulate him on this leadership and consider myself one of his followers.
