The US administration's policy on Afghanistan is meant to preserve its foothold in Afghanistan, which hinges on a lasting insecurity in the insurgency-racked country, a lawmaker said.
Trump has said he is committed to a prolonged US military presence in Afghanistan as long as there is "determination and progress" in the South Asian country.
He has signaled he will send more troops to Afghanistan, while accusing its nuclear power southern neighbor Pakistan of providing terrorists with a "safe haven".
Commenting on Trump's new wide-ranging Kabul strategy, Mohammad Reza Amirhassankhani said, "The US has never intended to help restore security to Afghanistan, so it could maintain a presence there and continue draining its resources."
"Had the American presence been really meant to help the Afghan security, we would not be witnessing the operation of dozens of terrorist groups there," he stressed in a recent talk with ICANA.
Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama, ordered the withdrawal of the bulk of US forces deployed in Afghanistan in 2014, thirteen years after Washington led an invasion of the country under the cover of war on terror.
Afghanistan had already suffered a Soviet Union occupation and was facing an insurgency by the Taliban militant group.
Some 18 years on, the local Taliban militant group has only boosted its campaign of violence across the country, targeting both civilians and security forces in bloody assaults.
More recently, the self-styled Islamic State terror group has also taken advantage of the chaos and established a foothold in eastern and northern Afghanistan.
IS has stepped up its terror attacks in the war-torn country after losing its bases in Iraq and Syria despite the presence of thousands of foreign troops on Afghan soil.
Dissenting Voice
Amirhassankhani said the decision for the potential deployment of US troops comes despite the dissenting opinion of the Afghan public.
"Today, the approach of the Afghan people toward the presence of the US servicemen is not positive because they failed to bring the Afghans security, so the Americans have found themselves bogged down" in the Kabul conflict, the parliamentarian added.
Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said the United States is paving the way for the infiltration of terrorists linked to the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group into Afghanistan to justify its continued presence in the region.
"The objective of the US from moving Daesh terrorists to Afghanistan is to justify the continuation of its presence in the region and create security for the Zionist regime," he said January, a month after the end of the IS reign in Syria and Iraq was formally declared.
