Foreign Policy

US targets Iran-Taliban nexus

By Joel Gehrke
Published October 23, 2018 3:34pm ET
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US targets Iran-Taliban nexus
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin leads a meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018, at the Treasury Department in Washington. The Treasury Department on Tuesday targeted a network of banks and businesses that provides financial support to a paramilitary force in Iran, which allegedly trains and deploys child soldiers to fight with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. | (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

A U.S.-led bloc of Arab nations took aim at the nexus between Iran and the Taliban on Tuesday, as part of a sanctions crackdown against the backdrop of violence in Afghanistan and a diplomatic crisis with Saudi Arabia.

“The United States and our partners will not tolerate the Iranian regime exploiting Afghanistan to further their destabilizing behavior,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in remarks accompanying the bulletin.

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