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IEA to take control of Afghan embassy in Tehran

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In This Feb. 20, 2019 photo, Afghans return to Afghanistan at the Islam Qala border with Iran, in the western Herat Province. Security officials worry that Iranian-backed Afghan veterans of the war in Syria will one day become a secret army for Tehran in Afghanistan itself, particularly after a U.S. withdrawal. Iran paid, trained and armed thousands of Afghan Shiites to fight in Syria to defend its ally, President Bashar Assad. Returning home as Syria’s war winds down, they face suspicion and fear. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
In This Feb. 20, 2019 photo, Afghans return to Afghanistan at the Islam Qala border with Iran, in the western Herat Province. Security officials worry that Iranian-backed Afghan veterans of the war in Syria will one day become a secret army for Tehran in Afghanistan itself, particularly after a U.S. withdrawal. Iran paid, trained and armed thousands of Afghan Shiites to fight in Syria to defend its ally, President Bashar Assad. Returning home as Syria’s war winds down, they face suspicion and fear. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

KABUL (Pajhwok): The caretaker government may take control of the Afghan Embassy in Tehran, a private TV channel reports.

Following months of talks, the foreign ministry in Tehran is said to be ready to formally hand over the embassy to the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

Amu TV quoted an Iran-based Afghan diplomat, who has been in talks with host officials, as saying IAE would take the embassy’s control on Sunday.

Earlier, the Ministry of Foreign in Kabul Affairs had announced the appointment of Mohammad Afzal Haqqani as the head of the Afghan embassy in Tehran.

Despite initial reluctance . . .

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