Afghan gov't delegation meets Taliban in Iran

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Tehran hosts the first significant peace talks in months in a previously unannounced meeting that comes as US forces leave.
46% : Iran and Afghanistan share deep cultural ties and a 945km (587 miles) border.
45% : Amid the spectre of another civil war in Afghanistan, fears have grown in Iran over a new wave of Afghans seeking refuge in the country, which is already struggling to stem worsening poverty under tough US sanctions.
43% : What Iran is trying to do, or is in the process of trying to do by hosting this meeting, may well be constructive.
42% : An Afghan government delegation has met Taliban representatives in Tehran, the Iranian foreign ministry says, as the armed group makes significant advances amid a pullout of US troops.
40% : Iran hosts several million Afghan refugees and migrant workers and is deeply concerned about the intensifying turmoil in the neighbouring country.
39% : Even as officials faced each other across the vast tables in Tehran and Iran's top diplomat pledged to end the crisis, fighting surged in Afghanistan's western Badghis province.
36% : The US, which has tense relations with Iran but briefly worked with Tehran on Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001 attacks, was circumspect about the talks.
35% : Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid confirmed Stanikzai's visit to Tehran to "discuss issues of mutual interest".

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