The Afghan government has declined to participate in a regional meeting on Afghanistan held in Tehran, a senior Taliban diplomat said on Saturday. Zakir Jalaly, the third political director of the foreign ministry, wrote on X that the Afghan government expects that established mechanisms should be used for discussions on Afghanistan, not new ones. Special representatives of Iran, Pakistan, Russia, and China are meeting in Tehran today to discuss Afghanistan. The United Nations is set to hold an international meeting of various countries’ special representatives for Afghanistan later this month…