Afghanistan's Shia anxious in face of Taliban takeover

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : The call was part of a broad campaign intended to reassure skittish Afghan Shias -- and neighbouring Iran, a Shia theocracy -- they had no reason to fear a Taliban return to power, as they sought to secure international legitimacy for their movement.
44% : In July, Taliban leaders visited Tehran, where analysts and regional officials say the Iranian government extracted promises of safety for Shias and ethnic minority Tajiks.
35% : ""If the Taliban starts killing Shias, it will lead to a civil war and Iran will have no other choice but to get involved in an unwanted conflict," said a professor of international relations at a university in Tehran.
35% : A 27-year-old Shia Hazara construction engineer from Herat who fled to Iran shortly before the Taliban takeover, said the Taliban failed to honour many of its past commitments, including a pledge not to persecute Shias, and a promise not to kill Iranian diplomats in Taliban-held Mazar-e-Sharif in 1998.

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