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
Lisa Schlein VOA News April 15, 2020 GENEVA – The UN refugee agency warns the return of tens of thousands of refugees to Afghanistan from Pakistan and Iran risks overwhelming the country’s medical system and spreading COVID-19. Pakistan and Iran host some 2.4 million Afghan refugees. Despite persistent risks and insecurity in Afghanistan, thousands of
Press TV April 12, 2020 Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has stressed the importance of strengthening unity among Afghanistan’s various parties and establishing peace and stability in the country. In a Sunday phone call with Mohammed Haneef Atmar, the acting foreign minister of Afghanistan, the Iranian foreign minister said relations between Tehran and Kabul
VOA News April 6, 2020 An Associated Press report says at least 200,000 Afghans living in Iran have been returning home in recent weeks because of Iran’s COVID-19 outbreak. The account says the Afghan nationals in Iran are exiting “a country that is one of the world’s biggest epicenters of the pandemic to an impoverished
Tolo News: After growing concerns about the spread of the coronavirus in Afghanistan, the Chinese embassy in Kabul on Friday told TOLOnews that China is ready to help Aghanistan. A number of Kabul residents on Friday launched a volunteer campaign to combat the virus in Kabul. Click here to read more (external link). Related Afghans
Tolo News: Officials of Herat province said on Wednesday that more than 15,000 Afghans have returned to Afghanistan from Iran by crossing the Islam Qala border in the past two days to avoid coronavirus. “From February 20 until now, 30,000 Afghans returned to Afghanistan voluntarily,” said Ahmad Jawed Nadam, head of the refugees and repatriation