US intelligence agencies believe that Iran’s government paid the Taliban to carry out a December attack on the US-run Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan, but the Donald Trump administration declined to retaliate against the Afghan insurgents in order to preserve a fragile peace deal, CNN reported Monday.
Multiple US intelligence agencies concluded that Iran has been offering bounty payments to the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network for attacks on US soldiers, according to CNN. In December, about 10 Taliban fighters and a suicide car bomb attempted to breach the perimeter at the airbase. US intelligence officials came to believe Iran’s payments may have incentivized the attack.
