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2021-10-27 22:24
Iranian UN envoy urges immediate international aid to Afghanistan
TEHRAN - Majid Takht Ravanchi, Iran's ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations, has said "it is time for the international community to join hands to provide immediate assistance to the people of Afghanistan.”
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2021-10-27 21:44
Tehran meeting: A roadmap for prosperous Afghanistan
TEHRAN – Foreign ministers of Afghanistan’s neighbors and Russia concluded the second meeting on Afghanistan, underlining the need for an inclusive government in the war-torn country that would protect the rights of all ethnoreligious groups.
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2021-10-27 19:11
Iran FM holds bilateral meetings with Turkmen, Tajik counterparts
TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian held bilateral meetings with the foreign ministers of Tajikistan and Turkmenistan ahead of the Wednesday meeting on Afghanistan in Tehran.
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2021-10-27 14:15
Taliban must assure neighbors there won’t be threat from Afghanistan: Iran FM
TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said on Wednesday that it is necessary that the current Taliban rulers in Afghanistan give assurances that there will be no threat against countries neighboring Afghanistan.
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2021-10-27 12:11
Tehran foreign ministerial meeting on Afghanistan begins
TEHRAN – The foreign ministers of the countries neighboring Afghanistan started their meeting in Tehran on Wednesday morning.
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2021-10-26 21:21
Iranian president's special envoy for Afghanistan inaugurated
TEHRAN – The new Iranian envoy for Afghanistan started discharging his duty on Tuesday after being inaugurated at a handover ceremony held at the Iranian foreign ministry.
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2021-10-26 21:20
Taliban welcomes Ayatollah Khamenei’s remarks on Shia-Sunni unity
TEHRAN — A Taliban spokesman has issued a statement welcoming the remarks by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the unity of Shias and Sunnis, the Mehr news agency reported on Tuesday.
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2021-10-26 21:20
President Raisi will inaugurate conference on Afghanistan
Tehran summit intended to find ‘Afghan solution’ for Afghanistan
TEHRAN — The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday that the conference on Afghanistan in Tehran on Wednesday is aimed to find solutions to the problems facing the country based on “Afghan solution”.
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2021-10-26 21:13
Taliban ready to buy oil from Iran, says ACCI chief
TEHRAN - Afghanistan is ready to buy oil from Iran, says the chairman of Afghanistan's Chamber of Commerce and Investment (ACCI) Tawakal Ahmadyar.
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2021-10-26 21:13
Positive signs on Afghanistan
TEHRAN – After weeks of uncertainty and mayhem, positive signals are now coming out of Afghanistan. The Taliban has made efforts to address the concerns among some countries over the recent developments in Afghanistan.
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2021/10/26
By Dr. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Meeting of Afghanistan's neighbors in Tehran: Together for peace and development
TEHRAN- The presence of U.S. troops and their allied forces in Afghanistan, as well as their embarrassing, catastrophic departure, has left in its wake an overwhelmingly disorganized country and an agitated and anguished nation, causing an ambiguous future for a country which suffered military invasion in a modern fashion under the clichéd slogan of democratic development.
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2021-10-26 10:52
Iranian ambassador meets acting Taliban foreign minister
TEHRAN - Bahador Aminian, Iran’s ambassador to Kabul, met on Saturday with Taliban’s acting foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi.
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2021-10-26 10:51
Russia to participate in Tehran meeting on Afghanistan
TEHRAN – A senior Russia diplomat has told Russian state media that his country would take part in a regional meeting in Tehran on Afghanistan.
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2021-10-25 17:06
Countdown to catastrophe: UN warns of Afghan food crisis
TEHRAN - Millions of people in crisis-stricken Afghanistan are on the brink of starvation with the onset of winter, the UN World Food Program (WFP) has warned.
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2021-10-24 23:16
Special envoy says Taliban is a reality in Afghanistan
TEHRAN — The Special Representative of the Iranian President for Afghanistan has said "considering the situation in Afghanistan, the Taliban is a reality in this country that controls the capital and is responsible for ensuring the security of this country."
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2021-10-20 22:07
Afghans critically wounded in terror act sent to Iran for treatment
TEHRAN — Iran was due to receive a group of Afghan nationals who sustained injuries during last week’s terror attack on a Shia mosque in the southern city of Kandahar.
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2021-10-19 22:11
Iran urges OIC action as Daesh seeks to sow sectarian rift in Afghanistan
TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said on Monday that Daesh attacks in Afghanistan are aimed at sowing religious discord in the crisis-hit country, urging the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to condemn such attacks, Press TV reported.
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2021-10-19 22:06
By Mohammad Mazhari
China will fill power vacuum left by U.S. in Afghanistan: researcher
TEHRAN - A research fellow and coordinator of the East Asia Centre at MP-IDSA in New Delhi says that Beijing has already taken steps towards engagement with the Taliban to fill the vacuum created by the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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2021-10-19 11:17
By M.A. Saki
Neighbors are mostly worried about export of extremists from Afghanistan: professor
TEHRAN – Professor Paul Pillar, a nonresident senior fellow of the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University, tells the Tehran Times that the main concerns of countries neighboring Afghanistan and those nearby is a “possible export of extremists and extremism from Afghanistan.”
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2021-10-18 22:04
Terrorist acts aimed to cause sectarian rift in Afghanistan, Raisi laments
Raisi appoints special envoy to Afghanistan
TEHRAN – At a cabinet meeting on Sunday President Ebrahim Raisi appointed Hassan Kazemi Qomi as the Special Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran for Afghanistan.
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2021-10-18 21:17
Iran embarks on military diplomacy
TEHRAN – In the latest sign of activating Iran’s new policy orientation, a senior Iranian general started a regional tour that included visits to two pivotal neighbors of the country in a bid to strengthen regional ties and dispel threats emanating from recent developments in the region.
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2021-10-15 21:25
Kandahar explosion: A sedition aimed to cause rift between Shias and Sunnis
TEHRAN — At least 68 people have been killed in an explosion at a mosque in the city of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, according to Al Jazeera.
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2021-10-15 21:23
Iran says invaders should take responsibility for Afghanistan mayhem
TEHRAN - Iran’s ambassador to the European Union on Thursday urges Afghanistan’s invaders to bear responsibility for the damage that they have afflicted on the Central Asian nation and the refugee influx that their actions have brought about.
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2021-10-15 16:59
Explosion at Shia Mosque in Afghanistan’s Kandahar causes ‘heavy casualties’
TEHRAN - A large explosion has hit a Shia Mosque in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar, killing at least 33 people and wounding scores of others.
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2021-10-15 11:48
By Mohammad Mazhari
There is doubt that Taliban has changed: researcher
TEHRAN - A Pakistani researcher says that despite initial optimistic views over the Taliban, there is now doubt whether the group has changed.
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2021-10-13 22:46
Tehran’s policy toward Afghanistan depends on Taliban’s behavior: Official
TEHRAN — Kamal Kharrazi, head of Iran's Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, said on Wednesday that Iran closely monitors the policies and behavior of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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2021-10-12 18:56
Iran set to host foreign ministers of countries bordering Afghanistan soon
TEHRAN — Director General of the West Asia Affairs Department at Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that Iran will soon host a meeting of foreign ministers of the countries neighbor to Afghanistan.
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2021-10-11 21:41
Kunduz crime highlights the need for security in Islamic states: Iranian military chief
TEHRAN - The Chief of General Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces said on Monday that a great tragedy has followed a terrorist operation in Kunduz in northeast Afghanistan highlights the need for unity, security and stability in the Islamic world, especially in the friendly and neighboring country of Afghanistan.
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2021-10-10 21:23
Parliament speaker: Provoking ethnic, religious sedition a new project of Afghanistan's enemies
Qalibaf says ‘Afghan authorities have a duty to ensure the security of the people’
TEHRAN - The speaker of the Iranian Parliament on Saturday condemned the brutal crime of Takfiri terrorists in a mosque in Afghanistan, warning that ethnic and religious sedition is a new security project by the enemies of the Afghan people.
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2021-10-09 22:29
Leader urges punishment for ‘bloodthirsty perpetrators’ of Kunduz attack
TEHRAN — Following a deadly terrorist attack in Afghanistan's Kunduz, which resulted in the death of scores of worshippers on Friday, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that this “heinous crime” has “saddened” him.