Press TV March 17, 2018 Building on a notably-successful and long-running first experience, Iran has launched iFilm2 television channel for Dari speakers within and outside the country’s borders. The inauguration ceremony took place on Saturday in the presence of Abdol-Ali Ali-Asgari, the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), and Peyman Jebelli, the
VOA News March 12, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Iran has accused the United States of helping Islamic State militants in Afghanistan to fuel regional terrorism and threaten neighboring countries. Visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made the allegations while speaking to a gathering of diplomats, scholars and journalists in Islamabad. He said U.S. helicopters were found
Tolo News: At the sixth Joint Economic Meeting between Afghanistan and Iran, officials of both nations agreed that Afghan goods trucks can cross into Iran without having to present bank guarantee letters. In addition, border tariffs will also decrease. Click here to read more (external link). Related Iran Increases Electricity Exports to Afghanistan
Hasib Danish Alikozai VOA News February 24, 2018 WASHINGTON — As leaders and representatives of countries involved in the Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India (TAPI) gas pipeline celebrated the project’s inauguration, Afghan Taliban, in a rare announcement, vowed to support and protect the pipeline in areas under its control. In a statement emailed to media outlets,
ScienceMag: The Hamoun wetlands, which once encompassed as much as 5800 square kilometers along Iran’s border with Afghanistan and supported settlements stretching back 5 millennia, “are an ecological catastrophe,”… On the Iranian side, villages are emptying. Winds in what has become a dust bowl ravage crops and sweep up pesticide residues and other pollutants. And a
Anjana Pasricha VOA News February 17, 2018 India and Iran sealed nine agreements during a visit by the Iranian President to New Delhi including a key accord that leases operational control of part of the Iranian port of Chabahar to New Delhi for 18 months. India is helping develop the port to create a strategic
Ayaz Gul VOA News February 6, 2018 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Iran has joined Russia in accusing the United States of aiding Islamic State extremists in Afghanistan, charges Washington vehemently denies. “After witnessing Daesh and other organized terrorist groups losing their ground in Iraq and Syria, they are now relocating them to Afghanistan,” Iranian media quoted the
Tolo News: Last year Iran issued 100,000 work visas to Afghans and have reportedly doubled the quota for this year. Hundreds of Afghans are lining up outside the Iranian consulate in the western province of Herat to get visas every day. Click here to read more (external link).
TEHRAN, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tuesday that the United States has been relocating the so-called Islamic State (IS) to Afghanistan to justify its military presence in the region. By transferring the IS terror group from Iraq and Syria to Afghanistan, the United States seeks “to justify the continuation
Press TV January 20, 2018 A senior Iranian diplomat says the US-led invasion of Afghanistan has merely led to the deterioration of the security situation in the Asian country, urging enhanced economic ties with Kabul to pave the way for an international fight against terrorism there. Iranian Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Es’haq Al-e Habib made