After the fall of the first Taliban government on the 23rd of Aqbar 1380, the newspaper "Jumhori-e-Islami" in Tehran published a photo of two Kabuli women wearing a chador on its front page and wrote next to it: "Kabul breathed a sigh of relief."
Almost 20 years later, on 24 Basad 1400, at the same time as the Taliban re-entered Kabul, the conservative newspaper "Wetan Amroz", which is supported by the Iranian government, described the return of this group to power as a failure of America's policy in Afghanistan with the headline "The United States of the Taliban".
The difference between these two positions raises the question of how the Islamic Republic came from a country that saw the end of the first period of Taliban rule in accordance with its security interests to the point where it saw the return of this group to power as a strategic failure of America.