“The United States has no legal right to sign a peace agreement or to decide the future of Afghanistan.”
Activists of Jamiat Ulema-e Islam Nazryate party march as they celebrate the signing agreement between the US and the Taliban during a rally in Quetta on March 1, 2020. The United States signed a landmark deal with the Taliban on February 29, laying out a timetable for a full troop withdrawal from Afghanistan within 14 months as it seeks an exit from its longest war. Banaras KHAN / AFP
“The United States has no legal right to sign a peace agreement or to decide the future of Afghanistan,” the foreign ministry said in a statement issued a day after the pact was inked in the Qatari capital. Ahead of the signing ceremony, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had warned Iran against trying to scuttle the agreement.
In its statement, Iran called for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan, saying their presence “is illegal and is one of the main causes of the war and insecurity in that country”.
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