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
Press TV December 1, 2017 At an international conference focusing on Afghanistan, Iran’s top diplomat urges attention to the growing presence of the Daesh Takfiri terror group in the Central Asian country. “At the Heart of Asia summit, we laid emphasis on the need for attention to the Daesh phenomenon in Afghanistan, which is expanding these
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News / November 29, 2017 HERAT, AFGHANISTAN — Tears streamed down her cheeks as she held up the pictures of her two grandsons. Both of them, Sayed Mujtaba and Sayed Ismail, were in the Afghan army a couple of years ago. When the Islamic State started gaining ground in Syria, Iran used its
1TV: “Afghan National Unity Government is not supporting Afghan citizens to join any war. We want Afghans to live peacefully anywhere they are.” Said Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah in Ministerial council meeting on Monday. Abdullah also welcomed elimination of Daesh sanctuaries in other countries and praised states that were involved in the efforts. Click here to read
Ayaz Gul VOA News / November 26, 2017 ISLAMABAD — A top official in Afghanistan has come under fire for seeming to confirm for the first time that neighboring Iran has recruited thousands of Shi’ite Afghans and “warriors” from other regional countries to fight in Syria. Deputy Afghan Chief Executive Mohammad Mohaqiq made the controversial statement