Special Eurasia: Tehran’s potential recognition of the Taliban is a strategic security hedge designed to stabilise its eastern frontier and prevent Afghanistan from being used as a platform for hostile intelligence or militant activity. Deepening trade interdependence, energy exports, and border free-trade zones are embedding Afghanistan structurally into Iran’s economy, transforming geopolitical risk into geo-economic leverage. Recognition could integrate Afghanistan into a Russia–Iran–Eurasia connectivity framework, linking Chabahar and the Caspian to the International North–South Transport Corridor and accelerating a regional, non-Western stabilisation model. Click here to read more (external link).