Iran-Afghanistan Relations

Three refugees from Afghanistan, including a woman, have attained top ranks in Iran’s highly-competitive nationwide university entrance exam for Master’s degree.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has blasted certain efforts to divert the Afghan nation’s attention from the main causes of the perpetuation of war in the country by levelling unsubstantiated accusations against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Iran's Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami says the emergence and expansion of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in Afghanistan is a "very dangerous phenomenon," expressing Tehran's readiness to cooperate with Kabul in the fight against terrorism.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Afghanistan has pledged to let Iran have its share of water from the Hirmand River and the supply for feeding Hamoon wetlands.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has strongly condemned the twin terrorist bombings in the Afghan capital of Kabul, which killed and wounded dozens of Afghan civilians including several reporters.

While Iranian officials maintain that it is unlikely the Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India (TAPI) pipeline project becomes operational, Saudi Arabia has pledged to provide its investment and Taliban militants vowed to secure it.

A senior Iranian official says sponsors of terrorist groups seek to trigger instability in Afghanistan and transfer to the country the remnants of defeated militants in Syria.

Iran and Turkey have reached a preliminary agreement to repatriate about 700 Iranian inmates from Turkey, said Mahmoud Abbasi, a Deputy for Human Rights and International Affairs at the Iranian Ministry of Justice.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has condemned the latest terrorist attack in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, as “a criminal and inhumane” move.

The Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has praised Afghan troops’ resistance against terrorists in Iraq and Syria.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has met a number of his counterparts from across the world on the sidelines of the ministerial conference of the Non-Aligned Movement in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araqchi says Iran is ready to establish cooperation with Uzbekistan to restore peace and stability to the war-torn Afghanistan.

A top Iranian official says the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan is the prelude to moving towards peace in the country.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has strongly denounced the recent terrorist incidents in France, Afghanistan and Egypt.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has strongly denounced a suicide blast in a Nowruz ceremony in Kabul.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman has denounced a terrorist blast in the Afghan capital of Kabul, which left several people dead and injured.

Afghanistan’s Defence Minister Ahmad Tamim Asey and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyyed Abbas Araqchi have discussed the Afghan peace process in Tehran.

Iran has warned that the US is relocating ISIS terrorists to Afghanistan to justify its presence there, calling for closer cooperation between Tehran and Kabul to fight terror.

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the goal behind Washington’s move to relocate ISIS terrorists to Afghanistan is to justify its military presence in the region and to provide security for the Zionist regime.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has condemned the Saturday terrorist attack in the Afghan capital of Kabul in which dozens of innocent people were killed and wounded.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has strongly denounced the armed attack and hostage taking in Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel which left tens of innocent civilians dead and wounded.

Sivanka Dhanapala, the outgoing representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Iran, has lauded the great efforts made by the Islamic Republic to help refugees and immigrants.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps’ Quds Force has managed to release an Iranian engineer who had been taken hostage and transferred to Afghanistan.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has categorically condemned the Thursday terrorist attack on an Afghan cultural centre and news agency in Kabul.

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says it is unacceptable to say that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) cannot cope with the growth of opium production in Afghanistan