Tolo News: The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, citing the death of Afghan nationals on the border between Afghanistan and Iran, claimed that the migrants were “tortured” by Iranian border forces and were forced to cross the Harirod River and return to their country. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that the investigation of
Press TV May 20, 2020 The US intelligence agency has acknowledged that Iran is not seeking to destabilize Afghanistan where the US he’s engaged in an alleged peace process. The US military intelligence announcement runs counter to previous remarks by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, The National Interest reported. “Iran’s strategic objectives relating to Afghanistan continue to
Tolo News: The bodies of 2 more Afghan migrants who were allegedly drowned by Iranian border police earlier this month were found in Harirod River, members of a task team investigating an alleged drowning by the Iranian border police said on Thursday. Iran has previously agreed to cooperate with a probe of the allegation. According
Tolo News: Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani has tasked a 10-member team to probe reports of the drowning of dozens of Afghan migrants by Iranian border security forces earlier this week. Mohammad Hamid Tahmasbi will lead the probe team, said Sediq Sediqqi, a spokesman to Afghan president Ashraf Ghani. Click here to read more (external link).
Press TV May 6, 2020 Tehran has dismissed as a “bitter joke” US claim of Iranian border guards’ involvement in the tragic deaths of a number of Afghan migrants near the border, saying a “war criminal” and “state sponsor of terror” is in no position to level such allegations. Last week, some claims surfaced in
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan May 4, 2020 Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for a “thorough investigation” into “shocking” allegations that Iranian border guards beat and then forced a group of Afghan migrants into a river. Afghan officials said up to 70 migrants last week illegally crossed into Iran, where they were beaten, tortured, and
Press TV May 3, 2020 Tehran says a recent incident befalling a number of Afghan citizens at a border region close to the Iranian soil took place on the Afghan side of the border and Iran’s border guards had no part in it. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi made the comments on Sunday after some
1TV: An Afghan delegation will investigate claims that Iranian guards threw a group of migrants crossing the border into river, an official told 1TV on Saturday. Preliminary reports suggest the migrants were thrown into river after crossing the border from Gulran district of Herat province. Click here to read more (external link). Related Iranian consulate
The Daily Beast: U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted last week, “I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea.” The tweet followed the dangerous maneuvers on April 15 by Iranian naval vessels near U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf. The
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 17, 2020 Najibeh Gholami was already doing a medical internship at Mashhad’s Imam Reza Hospital in February when the coronavirus pandemic reached that home of one of Shi’ite Islam’s holiest shrines. An Afghan physician-in-training in her mid-20s, she quickly volunteered to help tend to COVID-19 patients in that northeastern Iranian