Iran has long claimed to follow the policy of supporting political stabilization in Kabul while also simultaneously expanding ties with the Taliban. In wake of the Sept. 11 deadline of troop withdrawal of the U.S. forces this contradictory policy is gaining momentum and will likely breed more chaos and violence inside Afghanistan, warn experts. This policy of simultaneously supporting the Afghan government and the Taliban or what the experts call “hedging” is done with an intention to keep the Afghan government and the Taliban apart with hopes to be able to exert greater political influence once the United States withdraws. “Today, the Iranian government backs the Afghani constitution while its IRGC trains and weaponizes the Taliban,” Hamid Bahrami, a former Iranian political prisoner and independent Middle East analyst based in Glasgow, Scotland, told The Epoch Times in an email. Reports about Iran supporting the Taliban are not new. Sharif Yaftali, …