Iran-Afghanistan Relations

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Environment

Taliban say living up to watershare treaty with Iran if there is rain

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A spokesman for the Taliban has claimed Afghanistan is grappling with a drought and that all Afghans are facing water shortages, making Iran’s right to the Hirmand River water conditional on the existence of water.
Energy

Minister: Iran must enjoy its share of Hirmand River water

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Iran’s minister of energy has said the country must enjoy its right to the water of Hirmand River on the border with Afghanistan.
Economy

Iranian, Afghan officials stress on expansion of trade ties

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Iran and its eastern neighbor Afghanistan say trade relations between the two countries have to expand.
Local

Iranian daily: Govt. ‘paying ransom’ in face of ‘bullying’ Taliban

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A newspaper has come down heavily on the Iranian government for its “paradoxical policies” of not recognizing the caretaker administration in neighboring Afghanistan and yet hosting a top-level Taliban delegation.
Security

Iran-Taliban intel operation foils drone attack by Israeli Mossad

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A joint operation by the Iranian Intelligence Ministry and the Taliban has thwarted a drone attack by the Israeli spying service Mossad in eastern Iran.
Local

Iran rejects reports it plans to house Afghan asylum-seekers expelled from Pakistan

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An Iranian official has denied reports that a UN authority had announced Afghan asylum-seekers expelled from Pakistan would be housed in Iran.
Local

‘Stop purifying the Taliban’, Iranian daily warns of refugees influx.

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Although Iranian officials are scrambling to allay public concerns over the massive influx of Afghan refugees to Iran and also the government’s recent moves to approach the Taliban administration in neighboring Afghanistan, calls are growing that the trend has to stop.
Foreign Policy

Iran sends 5th aid shipment to quake-hit areas in Afghanistan

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Iran has dispatched its fifth consignment of relief aid to people in earthquake-stricken areas in neighboring Afghanistan.
Environment

Iran says receiving no water supply from Afghan side of Hirmand River

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The supply of water from the Hirmand River in Afghanistan to Iran has been completely cut off for a month, Iran’s Water Sector spokesman says.
Local

Iran sends search, rescue teams to quake-hit regions in Afghanistan

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Iran has dispatched search and rescue teams to earthquake-stricken areas in neighboring Afghanistan.
Security

Iranian minister: Illegal migrants to be extradited

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Iran says it will follow a stricter agenda to extradite illegal foreign migrants, a vast majority of them Afghans, to their home countries and will make the arrangements to organize the legal arrivals.
Human Rights

UN hails Iran’s services to Afghan refugees

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The United Nations has admired Iran, as the second largest host of refugees in the world, for its health services to Afghan refugees and has promised support for the future efforts.
Foreign Policy

Iran seeks to visit Hirmand dam over Afghan water share dispute

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Iran demands to inspect the reservoir of a dam on the Hirmand river in neighboring Afghanistan that has caused a standoff with the Taliban administration over Iran’s share of water from the river.
Local

Iranian Daily raises security alarm over growing number of Afghan refugees in Iran

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The influx of refugees to Iran after the takeover of the Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan is posing a security challenge for Iran, a leading Iranian newspaper has warned.
Foreign Policy

Iranian lawmaker urges action against Taliban as water rift looms

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An Iranian lawmaker has called for retaliatory measures against the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan in response to their failure to secure Iran’s water share from the Helmand River.
Foreign Policy

Iran FM invited to visit Kabul for talks with Taliban

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Afghanistan's acting foreign minister has invited Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian to visit Kabul for talks with the Taliban officials over bilateral issues.
Media

Iranian photojournalist released from Taliban custody

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The Taliban have freed Mohammad Hossein Velayati, an Iranian photojournalist working for the Tehran-based Tasnim News Agency, after holding him in custody for a week.
Foreign Policy

Special Envoy for Afghanistan urges fair delivery of Iran’s water rights from Hirmand

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The Iranian President’s Special Representative for Afghanistan Affairs, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, has called for the fair delivery of Iran’s water rights from the Hirmand River, also known as Helmand.
Local

Iranian daily warns against security fallout of Afghans’ increased immigration into Iran

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An Iranian newspaper has warned against the security repercussions of the growing number of Afghan nationals entering the country.
Foreign Policy

Iranian team in Afghanistan to inspect Helmand amid water dispute with Taliban

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Iran has deployed a team of technical experts to take a tour of the Helmand River in neighboring Afghanistan to help tackle a standoff with the Taliban administration over the share of water.
Views

Former Iranian diplomat: Taliban monopolizing all of Helmand water for own use

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A former Iranian diplomat says the Taliban have denied Iran the right to use water from the Helmand River, and monoplolized it for their own benefit.
Foreign Policy

Ex-Iranian diplomat: No diplomatic way out of water standoff with Taliban

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A former Iranian diplomat believes that the Taliban administration in Afghanistan will not back down in a dispute over Iran’s water share from the Helmand river with negotiations, suggesting that the Islamic Republic has to consider non-diplomatic ways.
Local

Iran urges realities regarding Taliban killing of Iranian diplomats, journalist 25 years ago

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The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called for shedding light on the circumstances surrounding the Taliban killing of Iranian diplomats and a journalist in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan 25 years ago.
Asia

Report: Taliban prepare large number of suicide bombers in water dispute with Iran

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The Taliban sent thousands of troops and hundreds of suicide bombers to the area, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg, claiming the group is prepared for war with Iran over a water dispute. Tehran has issued a warning to the Taliban, urging them to honor Afghanistan’s water-supply agreement or face the consequences.
Middle East

Taliban shut down Iranian charity organization’s offices

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The Taliban rulers of Afghanistan have shut down the offices of the Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation, a major Iranian charitable organization, in the Afghan cities of Kabul, Mazar-e-Sharif and Herat.
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