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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

‘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.
Asia

UN cautions Afghanistan meth trade increases as Taliban clamps down on heroin

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Methamphetamine trafficking in and around Afghanistan has surged in recent years, even as the Taliban have curbed heroin trafficking since taking power, according to a United Nations report on Sunday.
Asia

Rights groups denounce Taliban’s new curbs on women

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Human rights groups have condemned the Taliban’s latest restrictions on Afghan women’s education and movements. The ruling Taliban administration has recently barred women from visiting one of Afghanistan’s most popular national parks and stopped them from leaving for the United Arab Emirates to study on academic scholarships.
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.
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.
Asia

Taliban ban dozens of Afghan female students from boarding flight to Dubai

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Members of the Taliban government have prevented 100 female Afghan students who were given a scholarship to study at the University of Dubai from boarding their flight to the UAE.
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.
Asia

UN envoy calls on ICC to prosecute Taliban’s gender discrimination

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The United Nations global education envoy urged the International Criminal Court to prosecute gender discrimination in Afghanistan by the Taliban rulers.
Asia

UN rights experts denounce idea of ‘reformed’ Taliban

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More than 30 independent UN human rights experts have called for the international community to recommit to support the people of Afghanistan. They made the call in a statement issued on Monday marking two years since the Taliban took power.
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.
Asia

Pakistani FM threatens Afghan Taliban with counterterrorism operation

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Islamabad retains the option of launching a counterterrorism operation inside Afghanistan if the Taliban government fails to take action against terrorists operating along its borders, Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has warned.
Foreign Policy

Iran studying ‘non-diplomatic’ ways to restore right to water share from Helmand: Lawmaker

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An Iranian lawmaker says Iran is studying “non-diplomatic” ways to restore its right to water shares from the Helmand River, which the Taliban government in Afghanistan is currently not allowing to be fulfilled.
Asia

Taliban bans women’s beauty salons in Afghanistan

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The Taliban has issued a one-month closure notice to all beauty salons in Afghanistan, in the latest curb on the rights and freedoms of women and girls in the country.
Views

Ex-Iran envoy: Chances of world recognition of Taliban diminishing

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Iran’s former ambassador to Afghanistan has said chances of the international community recognizing the Taliban are diminishing.
Asia

UN says over 1,000 Afghan civilians killed since Taliban takeover in Afghanistan

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More than 1,000 civilians were killed and nearly 2,700 others wounded in Afghanistan since the Taliban took control of the country in 2021, a UN report says.
Asia

UN envoy says Afghan women ban makes Taliban recognition “nearly impossible”

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The United Nations envoy to Afghanistan and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has said that it will be “nearly impossible” for the international community to recognize the Taliban government as long as restrictions on women and girls remain in place in the war-ravaged country.
Asia

UN expert says Taliban treatment of women could be ‘gender apartheid’

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A United Nations expert has stated that the treatment of Afghan women and girls by the Taliban could amount to “gender apartheid” as their rights continue to be undermined by the governing authorities. The Taliban have accused the UN of “spreading propaganda against the Islamic Emirate”.
Parliament

Iranian parliamentary delegation to visit Afghanistan to pursue water share

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An Iranian MP says a parliamentary delegation of the Islamic Republic is going to visit Afghanistan to pursue Iran’s right to the water of Helmand River.
Asia

Taliban make US withdrawal anniversary a national holiday

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Afghanistan has created a new public holiday to mark the date the last US soldier left the war-torn country. According to the Taliban, the departure of foreign troops will be celebrated each year on August 31.
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