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Ex-Iranian MP: Trump’s election similar to Taliban return to power

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A former Iranian Parliament member likened Donald Trump re-election as the US president to the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan.
Asia

Taliban hopes for “a new chapter of relations” with US after Trump election victory

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Afghanistan’s Taliban has announced it hopes for “a new chapter of relations” with the US after President-elect Donald Trump’s win.
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.
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.
Foreign Policy

Taliban official apologized to Iranian people for refusing to respect national anthem

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A Taliban official who refused to stand up while Iran’s anthem was being played at a ceremony in Tehran, has apologized to the Iranian people.
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.
Asia

UNESCO says 1.4mn Afghan girls banned from schools since Taliban return to power

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At least 1.4 million girls in Afghanistan have been denied access to secondary education since the Taliban re-took power in 2021, with the future of an entire generation now "in jeopardy", the United Nations' cultural agency announced Thursday.
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.
Europe

Several European countries mull reopening embassies in Afghanistan: Report

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Several European states are considering reopening their embassies in Afghanistan in a move that would entail diplomatic recognition of the Taliban almost three years after the fall of Kabul, people familiar with the matter have claimed.
Middle East

MbZ meets Taliban leader wanted by US

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The acting interior minister of Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government, who has a $10m FBI bounty on his head, held a meeting with United Arab Emirates leader Mohammed bin Zayed in Abu Dhabi.
Asia

Taliban praise Russia stance on relations with Afghanistan

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The Afghan government formed by the Taliban movement assesses the latest statements of the Russian authorities on relations with Afghanistan as positive, the spokesman of the Taliban government Zabihullah Mujahid has said in a commentary to TASS.
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.
Americas

Former US generals slam Biden admin. for Afghanistan withdrawal

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The two top US generals who oversaw the evacuation of Afghanistan as it fell to the Taliban in August 2021 blamed the administration of President Joe Biden for the chaotic departure, telling American lawmakers that it inadequately planned for the evacuation and did not order it in time.
Asia

Afghanistan’s Taliban government accuses Pakistan of bombing civilians

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Afghanistan’s Taliban government has accused Pakistan of killing eight civilians in an air raid on Monday. The group responded by opening fire on Pakistani targets, allegedly wounding seven people.
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.
Asia

Taliban boycott UN-sponsored meeting in Qatar

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The Taliban refused to attend a UN-sponsored conference in Qatar, insisting that their delegation should be recognized as the sole representative of Afghanistan.
Asia

UN says Taliban enforcing restrictions on Afghan women

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The United Nations has published a quarterly report detailing concerns about the human rights situation in Afghanistan, specifically focusing on the limited rights women are awarded under the Taliban rule.
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.
Security

Iranian daily warns of ‘proxy’ tensions in Iran

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An Iranian newspaper has raised the possibility that the Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan might be linked to the recent terrorist attack in the southeastern Iranian city of Kerman which left scores of people dead and hundreds more wounded.
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.
Asia

Afghanistan’s poppy supply on global market plummeted 95% since last year: Report

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Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, once the world’s top supplier, has plummeted since the Taliban outlawed cultivation of the crop in 2022, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report shows.
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.
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