TEHRAN – Veteran Iranian actor Jamshid Mashayekhi has called on artists to condemn the ISIS-Taliban massacre of the Afghan villagers in the northern province of Sar-e Pul last Sunday.

He made the request on Thursday during a call to Abbas Azimi, the director of the Institute for the Veteran Artists, Azimi said in a press release.

According to media, over 60 people, including women, children and elderly men, most of them members of the largely Shia Hazara community, were killed overnight on Sunday in a joint ISIS-Taliban attack on Mirza Olang village in the Afghan province.

Photo: Actor Jamshid Mashayekhi (Mehr/Masud Saki)

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