The Jomhouri-e Eslami daily, in its editorial on Monday, called the Taliban "the most anti-women group in human history". The daily’s editorial said that Iran’s policy to engage with the Taliban has failed.
The newspaper emphasised on regional and global diplomacy to resolve tensions over the Helmand water rights issue.
Referring to what the newspaper called as "crime" by Mahmoud Hotaki in Isfahan 1720, this newspaper wrote that the Taliban are the heirs of this former king who conquered Iran.
The newspaper Jamhouri-e-Islami’s editor-in-chief is Masih Mohajeri and has a leaning towards the reformist movement in Iran.
The daily newspaper has listed the Taliban’s violations over the past 18 months and said that the group’s refusal to give water rights of Iran from the Helmand River will cause the death of hundreds of thousands of people in Sistan and Baluchistan and will cause them to leave their ancestral lands.
Referring to Iran's history of using diplomatic tools to put pressure on the Taliban, the Islamic Republic has emphasised that resorting to military means against the Taliban is "in no way permissible" to solve the water rights crisis.
The editorial of the newspaper added that the Islamic Republic cooperated with the United States to remove the Taliban from power, but now Iran has become friends with the same "terrorist group".
The newspaper also wrote that the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, despite being aware of the implementation of America's sinister plans by the Taliban, still interacts with the group and tolerates them.
Handing over the Afghan embassy in Tehran to the Taliban, inviting the Taliban to the official Eid ceremony, inviting the group to a book exhibition, and holding a meeting between the Iranian vice-president for women's affairs with the Taliban that the daily calls as the "most anti-women group in history" are some of the instances that this newspaper considered to be part of Iran's engagement with the Taliban.
The newspaper added that considering the Taliban’s past in the 1990s, and the group’s killing of Iranian diplomats and the Hazara people, the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran should fundamentally revise its policy toward the Taliban.
The daily has urged Iran to correct its mistakes of engagement with the Taliban by supporting the people of Afghanistan and discontinuing its support for the Taliban.
