Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 14, 2019 A road accident in southeast Iran has killed 28 Afghan nationals, the semiofficial ILNA news agency reports. The report says 21 people were also injured when two crowded minibuses collided near the town of Khash in Sistan and Baluchistan Province early on November 14, some 1,500 kilometers southeast
Press TV November 1, 2019 Iran’s First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri has warned that the Daesh Takfiri group may seek to transfer its terrorists to Afghanistan against the backdrop of its consecutive defeats in Iraq and Syria, urging the Afghan government to remain vigilant in the face of such a plot. Jahangiri, who is in
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 31, 2019 A total of 403,338 people have returned to Afghanistan from neighboring Iran and Pakistan since the beginning of the year, the UN-affiliated International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a report released on October 31. The report said that some 385,000 Afghans have been repatriated from Iran, with
Foreign Affairs: Iran wants to see stability in Afghanistan. The Soviet occupation and subsequent instability sent an estimated three million Afghan refugees into Iran, where their presence strained resources and public services in many towns and cities across the country. Moreover, Tehran fears that Saudi Arabia will exploit volatility in Afghanistan to cultivate proxies on Iran’s eastern flank. Click
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 17, 2019 A four-member Taliban delegation has traveled to Tehran for talks with high-ranking Iranian officials — the second such trip by militants to a foreign country just days after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that peace talks with the United States have collapsed. Suhail Shaheen, a spokesman for the
Tolo News: Iranian Ambassador to India Ali Chegeni said that India’s development work had been “very slow”, and that trade to Afghanistan was “much lower” than it should be, India’s The Hindu reported. He also said that in view of the delay over India’s plans to build a railway line connecting Chabahar port to the Afghan
Press TV September 10, 2019 Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reminds the United States that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu contributed to the launch of the US-led invasion of Afghanistan before he tried bringing about the Washington-spearheaded war on Iraq. “Did you know, realDonaldTrump (the name of the US president’s Twitter account), that Netanyahu was
Press TV September 8, 2019 Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says foreign troops, who have failed in achieving their purported goal of fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, must leave South Asian country so that fratricide would end there. Zarif made the remarks in a post on his official Twitter account on Sunday in reaction to
Ariana: For the first time, the Afghan Ministry of Commerce and Industries exported 20 tons of grapes to India’s markets through Iran’s Chabahar Port, officials said on Wednesday. Afghanistan will soon begin exports of Kandahar pomegranate and Maidan Wardak apple via Chabahar to India’s markets. Afghan officials believe that the increase of business through Chabahar will pave
Press TV August 13, 2019 Iran’s minister of transportation says good progress has been made at construction activities for a strategic railway linking the port of Chabahar on the Sea of Oman to the city of Zahedan near the Iranian-Afghan border. Mohammad Eslami said on Saturday that at least 40 percent of the 580-kilometer railway,