Iran-Afghanistan Relations

An Iranian official says almost 5,000 Afghans have been entering Iran on a daily basis, since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan last August.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian has wrapped up a visit to China, where he attended a meeting of Afghanistan’s neighbors and separately met with a number of his counterparts mainly from Asian countries.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says European countries have provided no relief aid for Afghan refugees in Iran and the Islamic Republic is hosting them on its own.

The Iranian foreign minister says Tehran is seriously concerned over Daesh terror group recruiting inside Afghanistan as well as in some regional countries.

The foreign ministers of Iran and Pakistan have described as frustrating the deprivation of Afghan girls from education.

The head of Iran’s Red Crescent says all Afghan nationals residing in the country have received Covid vaccine.

Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai says the Islamic Republic of Iran has not withheld any assistance to the government and people of Afghanistan.

Iranian Foreign Minister has dismissed US claims that its withdrawal from Afghanistan had all been planned beforehand. Hossein Amir Abdollahian said Americans would not have opted for such an "embarrassing" pullout if they had other choices.

Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi says the country is seriously pursuing to get its water rights from Hirmand River, the Iranian part of which has been almost dry after Afghanistan built a dam on the river.

The Iranian president’s special envoy for Afghanistan has met with the Taliban’s minister of energy and water as well as minister of foreign affairs.

Scores of disabled persons staged a protest in Jalalabad in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province on Tuesday, urging the United States to return Afghan assets.

Iran’s top general says the country is actively pursuing its rights to water from the Helmand River on the border with Afghanistan.

Thousands of Afghans poured into the streets of Kabul on Tuesday to condemn the recent U.S. decision to freeze Afghan assets, calling the move as unjust and open stealing.

Iran says it has sent another shipment of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan.

The Department of Environment of the Southeastern Iranian Province of Sistan and Balouchestan says the water from Hirmand River in Afghanistan has not reached the Iranian territory despite the Taliban pledging to release the water toward Iran.

Iran has sent a new batch of humanitarian aid to the Afghan province of Ghazni, as the war-torn country continues to suffer from food crisis.

A spokesman for the Taliban says the group agrees to all the provisions of a treaty under which Iran and Afghanistan agreed to divide the water of Helmand River.

Iran has dispatched another batch of much needed humanitarian aid to the needy people of Afghanistan.

An Iranian lawmaker has lashed out at Afghanistan for failing to make good on its obligations with regards to the supply of water.

Iran’s special representative for Afghanistan says the Tehran administration has given the green light to exports of gasoline to the northeastern neighbor to help its people get through the frigid winter in the crisis-hit country.

Afghanistan has re-opened the gates of a dam near the Iranian border, allowing the Helmand River to flow into Iran, days after a visit to Tehran by a Taliban delegation.

A Taliban spokesperson says a recent visit by Afghanistan's Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to Iran was an important trip with major achievements.

The Taliban say the meeting between their acting foreign minister and Iran’s foreign minister in Tehran was positive and constructive.

The Taliban acting foreign minister has described his visit to Tehran and consultations with the Iranian officials as positive.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian has said sowing discord between Afghanistan and neighboring countries is a pillar of US policy in the region.