Officials in western Nimroz province say Afghan and Iranian forces have clashed in Kang border district of the province. HabibaullahElham, Nimroz information and culture director, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the clash took place on Monday evening. However,…
Iran has poured scorn on the Biden administration’s claims that the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan had been planned. Given a choice, the Iranian foreign minister opined, Washington would not have opted for the embarrassing pullout from Afghanistan.…
The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations (MoRR) on Saturday said that around 500,000 Afghans from Iran and Pakistan, and some other countries, had returned to Afghanistan since the establishment of the new caretaker government in the country. Mohammad…
Iran has voiced its willingness for joint investment programmes with Afghanistan in different sectors. The two countries should pursue joint investment initiatives in the mining industry, energy and agriculture, proposed Iran’s special envoy for Afghanistan. According to Tasnim…
Local officials say Iran daily deports more than 3,000 Afghans forcibly through the port of Islam Qala in western Herat province. Mullah Abdul Hai Muneeb, director of refugee and repatriation affairs in Herat province, told Pajhwok Afghan…
Iranian army chief says the border between Afghanistan and Iran is well secured and if any minor issues happens, it will be solved by border forces of the two neighbors. Tasnim News Agency in a report said that…
Over a million Afghans have migrated to Iran via Afghanistan’s southwestern border in recent months, a media report said on Thursday. From October through the end of January, more than a million Afghans in southwestern Afghanistan alone have…
Iran’s special representative for Afghanistan has announced the issuance of a quarterly transit permit for diesel fuel through the territory of Iran to Afghanistan. Hassan KazemiQomi, the Iranian president's special envoy for Afghanistan, said his country had issued…
A Taliban delegation has met with Mohammad Islamil Khan and Ahmad Massoud in Tehran and has assured them that they could return to the country without any worry. Ismail Khan, a former governor of Herat and a leading…
The Foreign Ministry in Tehran says Iran is ready to cooperate with Afghanistan in transportation of Indian humanitarian aid to the war-hit country through its territory. Fars News Agency reported Iranian Foreign Minister Amir Abdollahian said in a…
Afghanistan’s frozen assets should be used for humanitarian purposes and improvement of living conditions for the Afghans, says Iran. Following Taliban’s takeover of the country in August last year, the US and its allies blocked Da Afghanistan Bank…
More than 1.1 million Afghan refugees were repatriated from Iran and Pakistan in 2021, the International Organization of Migration (IOM) said on Monday. A total 1,146,750 Afghans without documents have returned to the country --- 19,000 from Pakistan…
Iran has ruled out recognising the current Afghan government unless it becomes really inclusive. However, the Iranian ambassador in Kabul said Tehran could ask other countries to recognise the Islamic Emirate if it reformed the government structure. In…
Iran will continue to assist Afghanistan in areas economy and culture, officials of the Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of northern Balkh province, said on Wednesday. Sikandar Yan, Iran's deputy consul general in Mazar-i-Sharif, made the remarks…
Iran's Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Secretary Abbas Araghchi has met United Nations Secretary General's Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan Mette Knudsen. The two sides discussed the current situation in Afghanistan, security concerns, ISIS terrorism and the future…
The Department of Refugees and Repatriation of western Nimroz province says around 3,000 Afghans are deported from Iran every day, while hundreds more migrate to the neighboring country via Nimroz border every day due to poverty and unemployment…
Iran has agreed to supply another 100 megawatts of electricity to Afghanistan and is also ready to invest in wind power generation in Afghanistan. HekmatullahNaoorzai, a spokesman for Da Afghanistan BreshnaShirkat (DABS), told Pajhwok that a delegation of…
Iran has urged the international community to stop the immigration of Afghans and unfreeze their assets immediately. Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Wahid issued the call in a chat with journalists in Tehran on Tuesday, according to media reports.…
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has announced that Hassan KazemiQomi, special representative of Iran’s president, will travel to Kabul soon. The report was published by Iranian media today, quoting Saeed Khatibzadah, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The exact…
Hizb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) supreme leader GulbuddinHekmatyar has condemned Iran's recent statements about non-recognition of the Afghan government and asked the country to correct its statements. "Iran should correct its statements" HIA leader,GulbuddinHekmatyar said in a Friday prayer sermon,…
Iranian Ambassador Bahadur Aminian has expressed his country’s readiness to help rebuild historical monuments in southern Ghazni province. Iranian media reported on Saturday that Aminian travelled to Ghazni on Thursday and visited the main provincial museum and other…
Four Afghans were killed and six others injured when Iranian forces opened fire on a vehicle carrying the victims in the neighboring country, sources said on Tuesday. Habib-ur-RehmanIbrahimi, a freelance journalist and writer from Saidabad district of MaidanWardak…
Iranian said on Monday it would not become part of any mechanism on Afghanistan involving the United States and extra-regional countries. A spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said in an interview his country was included in different…
Iran says it will host a meeting of foreign ministers of six neighboring countries of Afghanistan on Wednesday to discuss an inclusive government, stability and security in the war-torn country. Iranian Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzada told reporters today…
