Iran-Afghanistan Relations

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Asia

Video shows opium thrown into Iranian side of border from Afghanistan 

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A video has ricocheted around social media that purportedly shows a number of people throwing packages of opium and other narcotics into the Iranian side of the border from Afghanistan.
Education

Official: Iran universities hosting 40k Afghan students, ready to admit female ones

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The Iranian deputy minister of science, research and technology says the country is hosting around 40,000 university students, and that three Iranian universities are ready to give admissions to female Afghans, who are denied of the right to higher education at home.
Local

Iran news outlet: Why was Taliban’s unofficial envoy invited to Raisi’s Iftar banquet?

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An Iranian news outlet has criticized the Raisi administration for inviting the Taliban representative to an Iftar banquet hosted by the President, while Tehran does not still recognize the interim Afghan government and that Kabul has no ambassador or diplomat officially posted to the Islamic Republic.
Views

Ex-envoy to Kabul: Taliban dried up Iran’s Hamoun wetlands by diverting water flow

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Iran’s ex-ambassador to Afghanistan says the interim Taliban rulers are behind the drying up of the Hamoun wetlands in eastern Iran by cutting the flow of Hirmand River waters into the Iranian side of the border and diverting the waters through a dam to their opium fields.
Asia

Iranian official rejects Taliban claim about drug cultivation ban in Afghanistan 

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The director general of Iran’s drug control headquarters dismisses the Taliban’s claim that drug cultivation has been banned in Afghanistan.
Foreign Policy

Taliban delegates in Iran for talks on situation of Afghan migrants

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A delegation with Afghanistan’s caretaker Taliban government has visited Iran for talks with relevant officials on the situation of Afghan migrants and refugees in the country.
Foreign Policy

Envoy stresses Iran’s commitment to work with neighbors to assist Afghans

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Iran's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Amir Saeid Iravani says Tehran is committed to cooperate with neighboring states of Afghanistan and other partners to support the Afghan people.
Security

Iranian forces, Taliban clash again on Iran-Afghanistan border

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Taliban forces and Iranian border guards have reportedly engaged in a firefight along the Milak border north of Iran’s Sistan and Balouchestan Province.
Security

Iran: Extra-regional meddling in Afghanistan fuels insecurity in broader region

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Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani warns against attempts by the US to fuel insecurity in Afghanistan, saying the meddling of extra-regional parties in Afghanistan will spread insecurity to the entire region.
Asia

Taliban say they are committed to Iran’s water right

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Acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan's Taliban Amir Khan Muttaqi emphasized that the rulers are committed to respecting Iran's water rights from the Helmand River.
Human Rights

UNHCR official: Iran providing Afghan refugees with all facilities

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An official with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) praises Iran for warmly hosting Afghan refugees in the country and providing them, particularly their children, with all facilities, including education.
Education

Iranian universities ready to admit Afghan students after Taliban ban

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Three gender-specific universities in Iran have expressed readiness to enroll hundreds of Afghan women after the Taliban barred female students from attending private and public universities in Afghanistan.
Economy

Iran pursuing border diplomacy with Pakistan, Afghanistan: Interior minister

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The Iranian interior minister highlights the strategic significance of the country’s southeastern frontiers, saying the Tehran administration is pursuing an agenda to promote border diplomacy with neighboring Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Foreign Policy

Iranian Foreign Ministry says Afghan girls allowed to study in Iran 

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An aide to Iran’s foreign minister says Afghan girls can study at Iranian universities through distant learning system and using the existing infrastructure in Iran.
Security

Informed source denies reports of border shootout between Iranian, Afghan forces

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An informed Iranian security source has denied rumors that a firefight broke out between Iranian and Afghan forces on Iran’s eastern border.
Local

Funeral held for Iranian soldier killed along Afghanistan border

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People in the northeastern Iranian city of Mash’had hold a funeral for a soldier killed by bandits along Iran’s border with Afghanistan.
Environment

Official: Taliban divert Hirmand water, deny Iran’s right

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The Taliban rulers have followed in the footsteps of the previous administration in Afghanistan and have deprived Iran of its share of water from the Hirmand River, an Iranian official says.
Energy

Official: Iran exported shipments of diesel to Afghanistan last week

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The CEO of the National Iranian Oil Refinery and Distribution Company says the country exported shipment after shipment of diesel to Afghanistan at a price of 1,100 dollars per ton last week.
Asia

Afghanistan’s acting FM calls for expansion of ties with Iran

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Afghanistan’s acting foreign minister calls for expansion of economic ties with Iran. Amir Khan Mottaqi made the demand during a meeting with Alireza Bigdeli, Consular Deputy of Iran’s Foreign Ministry, and Bahador Aminian, Iranian Ambassador to Kabul.
Foreign Policy

Afghan FM: third parties should not be let harm Tehran-Kabul ties

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Afghan Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Mottaqi says Afghanistan and Iran should not let other sides harm relations between the two countries.
Environment

Iranian minister in Kabul for Hirmand water right talks

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Iran’s energy minister has called for the implementation of the 1972 Hirmand River treaty with Afghanistan over the water rights of the two countries.
Foreign Policy

Iran foreign ministry urges clarification over killing of diplomats in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan

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On the 24th anniversary of the killing of the Iranian diplomats and journalist by the Taliban in the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif, the Iranian foreign ministry has called for shedding light on all dimensions of the terror incident.
Foreign Policy

Iran calls on Taliban to ensure Shia mourners’ security

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Iran has strongly condemned the fatal terrorist attack on a Shia neighborhood in the Afghan capital Kabul and urged the Taliban to provide the Muharram mourners with security.
Foreign Policy

Raisi condemns Israeli ‘crimes in Gaza’, terror blast in Afghanistan

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has condemned Israel’s recent bloody air raids on the Gaza Strip, but reiterateed that the Palestinian nation’s resistance against “Tel Aviv’s crimes will speed up the collapse of the occupying regime.”
Foreign Policy

FM: Iran won’t give up even a drop of water rights

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The Iranian foreign minister says Iran will not forgo even a drop of its water rights amid a dispute with neighboring Turkey and the Taliban rulers in Afghanistan.
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