{"id":14894,"date":"2026-01-02T03:15:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=14894"},"modified":"2026-01-02T03:15:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:45:53","slug":"intelligence-control-of-the-economy-in-herat-money-changers-under-taliban-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/intelligence-control-of-the-economy-in-herat-money-changers-under-taliban-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligence Control of the Economy in Herat: Money Changers Under Taliban Pressure."},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14900\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/aharateeedew.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/aharateeedew.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/aharateeedew-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/aharateeedew-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/aharateeedew-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/aharateeedew-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Intelligence Control of the Economy in Herat: Money Changers Under Taliban Pressure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Local money changers in Herat report that the Taliban\u2019s intelligence directorate has relocated its office to Khorasan Market, the city\u2019s main hub for currency exchange and financial transfers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to experts, this move was deliberate and calculated, amounting to direct control over the city\u2019s financial and economic flows.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>\u00a0Reports indicate that the location is being used to pressure money changers, restrict money transfers, and collect significant sums daily under illegal and coercive pretexts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>This trend has put the capital of citizens and traders at risk and has turned Herat\u2019s economic environment into one marked by fear, pressure, and instability.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Local sources also warn that networks affiliated with Taliban intelligence are employing various methods, including threats, intimidation, extortion, coercion, and in some cases abduction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to the sources, the current situation in Herat goes beyond an ordinary security issue and signals the institutionalization of lawlessness and the systematic seizure of people\u2019s assets developments that, if continued, will have serious social, economic, and humanitarian consequences.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intelligence Control of the Economy in Herat: Money Changers Under Taliban Pressure. Local money changers in Herat report that the Taliban\u2019s intelligence directorate has relocated its office to Khorasan Market, the city\u2019s main hub for currency exchange and financial transfers. According to experts, this move was deliberate and calculated, amounting to direct control over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14907,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14894\/revisions\/14907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}