Iran-Afghanistan Relations

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Judiciary

Official: Afghan nationals make up majority of 8,000 foreign prisoners in Iran, ready for repatriation

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Migrants from neighboring Afghanistan form the majority of some 8,000 foreign nationals incarcerated in Iran, the Deputy Minister of Human Rights and International Affairs at Iran’s Ministry of Justice announced on Tuesday, adding the first phase of transferring the convicts to their home country has initiated.
Judiciary

Senior Iran judicial official: Afghan prisoners to be extradited to own country

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The Deputy Minister for International Affairs and Human Rights of Iran's Justice Ministry announced that within the next two months, a thousand Afghan prisoners will be returned to their country from Iran.
Views

Iranian daily slams invitation of Taliban ‘water war theorist’ to Tehran as ‘own goal’

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A newspaper in Iran has criticized the invitation of Farooq Azam, an advisor to Taliban’s Ministry of Water and Energy for a conference in Tehran as a ‘diplomatic blunder,’ saying he is the main figure behind the current water rights spat between Iran and the caretaker administration in neighboring Afghanistan.
Security

Tehran denies ports of Afghans killed while sneaking into Iran 

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Iran’s ambassador to Kabul has denied reports that dozens of Afghan nationals have been shot and killed by Iranian border guards while trying to sneak into the Iranian territory illegally.
Views

Iranian daily urges Pres. Pezeshkian to counter Taliban influence in Iran

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A Tehran-based newspaper has called on Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to take decisive action against what it called elements within Iran that support the Taliban’s influence in the country.
Security

Police chief: Iran to deport 2 million illegal immigrants by mid-March

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The chief commander of Iran’s Law Enforcement Force announced a significant crackdown on illegal immigration from the eastern neighbor, Afghanistan.
Security

Cmdr.: Army constructing Iran-Afghan border wall at full speed

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The Iranian Army has constructed 10 kilometers of the wall that is supposed to serve as a barrier between Iran and Afghanistan, a senior commander announced on Monday.
Views

Iranian daily: Tehran should retract all privileges given to Taliban

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The Iranian government should withdraw all of the privileges it has so far granted to the Taliban, a Tehran-based newspaper believes, arguing the ruling regime in neighboring Afghanistan is ‘terrorist’ in nature and deems it obligatory to kill Shia Muslims.
Local

Iranian daily renews warning on new Afghan migrants ‘trained by Taliban’

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An Iranian newspaper has issued a new warning on the torrent of Afghan migrants in Iran, saying some of them have received military training under the Taliban rulers in the neighboring country and are rep.eat offenders in Iran.
Security

Iran gives illegal migrants ultimatum to leave country

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A senior Iranian military commander has notified that illegal immigrants in Iran, mostly from neighboring Afghanistan, have until the end of the current year on the Persian calendar, March 20, to leave the country.
Incidents

Huge fire shuts economic zone in northeast Iran

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A huge blaze has caused damage to the fuel tanks in the Dowqarun special economic zone in Iran’s northwest region of Taybad near the border with Afghanistan.
Foreign Policy

Taliban accept Iran’s reservations for acting consul in Mashhad

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Sources have reported that the interim Afghan government has finally accepted the Islamic Republic of Iran's request to follow the Vienna Convention's procedures for introducing, approving, and accepting diplomats. Consequently, the "acting" consul appointed by the Taliban for the Afghan consulate in Mashhad, northeastern Iran, has been accepted by Iran.
Local

Iranian daily: Taliban on ethnic cleansing rampage of Shias, Iran silent

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An Iranian newspaper has slammed officials in Iran for turning a blind eye to what it calls an ‘ethnic cleansing and killing spree of Shia Muslims’ in neighboring Afghanistan under the Taliban rulers.
Transportation

Official: Afghan authorities bully Iranian truck drivers  

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The deputy head of Iran’s Association of Truckers Trade Unions says Afghanistan has limited the traffic of the Iranian trucks by bullying and imposing very strict rules for the movement of Iranian trucks in the country.
Foreign Policy

Dividing Iran, Afghanistan a U.S. scheme: Ambassador 

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Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Iran's presidential envoy to Afghanistan who simultaneously serves as Tehran's ambassador to Kabul, emphasized that the United States has been hell-bent on dividing Iran and Afghanistan. 
Asia

“Afghanistan has turned into major producer of methamphetamine”

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An Iranian official says neighboring Afghanistan is now a major producer of methamphetamine in the region, voicing Tehran's readiness to tackle the problem.
Local

Iranian daily slams govt. for permitting Taliban to invest in Iran

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An Iranian newspaper has taken a swipe at the government for giving the all clear to the Taliban to make investments in southern Iran.
Economy

Envoy: Taliban invest $35mn in Iran’s Chabahar

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The Taliban administration in Afghanistan has invested 35 million dollars in Iran’s southeastern port city of Chabahar on commercial, residential and administrative projects, the Iranian special envoy to Kabul announced.
Security

Official: Iran repatriates 20,000 illegal Afghan migrants

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About 20,000 undocumented Afghan migrants in Iran have been detained and sent back to their home country by Iranian security forces during the past two weeks, the border guards commander of the Khorasan Razavi Province, neighboring Afghanistan, says.
Environment

Environment body: Afghanistan construction of dam dries Hamun Wetland in Iran

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The construction of Kamal Khan Dam by Afghanistan has caused the Hamun Wetladn on the border with Iran in the province of Sistan and Baluchestan, to dry.
Asia

Taliban brand Daesh as common Enemy of Afghanistan, Iran

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Deputy prime minister of the Taliban administration for political affairs, Mohammed Abdul Kabir, has denounced the Daesh terrorist group as the common enemy of Afghanistan and Iran.
Asia

Acting Afghan FM urges migrants in Iran to return home

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The foreign minister of the caretaker government in Afghanistan Amir Khan Muttaqi visited representatives of Afghan migrants in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad on Monday, calling on all Afghans in Iran to return to their homeland as he said the conditions are back to normal.
Security

Afghanistan seeks economic revival to facilitate return of Afghan immigrants

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Amir Khan Mottaghi, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, expressed the nation's commitment to creating an environment conducive to the repatriation of Afghan immigrants.
Local

Iranian daily blames Taliban for terrorist attack in Sistan and Baluchestan

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An Iranian daily says the terrorist attack in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan on Friday should be viewed in a broader context where multiple agents, most outstandingly the Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan, are involved.
Security

Iran’s anti-narcotics chief warns of rising industrial drug production in Afghanistan

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The Secretary General of Iran's anti-narcotics headquarters, expressed concern over the surging production of industrial drugs despite reported efforts to reduce drug cultivation in Afghanistan.
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