Mehr News Agency August 9, 2016 TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) – Heads of Iranian and Afghan customs offices have entered into a preliminary agreement for creation of a transit-oriented green customs path.The agreement was reached during a meeting in Tehran between Deputy Economy Minister and the Head of Islamic Republic of Iran’s Customs Administration (IRICA)
Press TV August 6, 2016 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says progress and security of Afghanistan are among the Islamic Republic’s core policies. In a meeting with Afghanistan’s National Security Advisor Mohammad Hanif Atmar in Tehran on Saturday, Zarif added that the Iranian and Afghan people enjoy cordial relations. “Afghanistan is a friend neighbor
Press TV July 5, 2016 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says providing the central government in Afghanistan with full support is one of the fundamental policies of the Islamic Republic. “We regard terrorist and extremist groups as a danger not only to the friendly and neighboring country of Afghanistan but to the entire region,” Rouhani said in
Tolo News: A new decree issued by Iran’s Interior Ministry enables Afghan refugees in the country to get schooling for their children free of charge, Iranian media reported. The Afghan families residing in Iran will no more have to pay any fee to sign up their children in Iranian schools, the Iranian Interior Ministry said. Click
VOA News Ayaz Gul June 26, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Syria’s main opposition alliance is conveying serious concerns over Iran’s campaign of recruiting and training thousands of Afghan men to fight in Syria. Officials in Afghanistan confirmed Sunday they have received a letter expressing the concerns from the Syrians. The letter urges President Ashraf Ghani to take urgent steps
Press TV June 22, 2016 Iran’s mission to the United Nations has expressed concern over a rise in the activities of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group in neighboring Afghanistan. Gholam-Hossein Dehqani, Iran’s deputy ambassador to the UN, called attention to a United Nations report which has found that armed conflict in Afghanistan currently stands at its highest level since 2001.
Tehran Times June 19, 2016 TEHRAN — Afghanistan plans to submit a version of the Kulliyat-i Sadi to be registered on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register list. The version inscribed nine years after the death of the Persian poet is the oldest copy of the collection, which is kept at the National Archives of
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 19, 2016 The UN refugee chief has said displaced Afghans had already been “forgotten” by the international community before they began arriving in Europe in large numbers last year. On a visit to Iran on June 18, Filippo Grandia said his first regional tour as the new UN High Commissioner
Tolo News: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoF) of Afghanistan on Wednesday strongly criticized the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Turkey for their attempt to enlist Masnavi Ma’navi (collection of poems) of prominent Persian poet Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī in UNESCO as a common heritage of Iran and Turkey. MoFA said that is
1TV: Afghan Taliban leader Akhtar Mansour who died in a U.S. drone attack in Pakistan last month had been negotiating with officials during his stay in Iran, an Iranian newspaper reported Tuesday. Jahan News claimed that Mansour had been in Iran for two months and that his killing came a week after he left the country. The paper