KABUL. Iran's Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani called the Taliban a reality that could not be ignored. “But are all Afghans Taliban? No." The security official told a media briefing in Tehran on Wednesday that any strategy excluding…
The US has imposed a new round of sanctions against Iran, hitting a shipping network for smuggling lethal aid to Yemen. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Wednesday Tehran’s largest airlines and shipping companies were being sanctioned…
KABUL (Pajhwok) US President Donald Trump on Tuesday denounced Iran's crackdown on anti-government protesters, as rights groups said the death toll had soared. Protests erupted in Iran on Nov. 15 after an announcement that petrol prices were going up by…
Iran had declined participation in four-way meeting in Moscow last month because of the US involvement, says an Iranian diplomat. The diplomat says Tehran turned down an invitation to take part in the meeting on Afghanistan in Moscow…
KABUL’s Embassy in Tehran says it would follow the case of an Afghan who was kidnapped and tortured in Iran. A statement from the Afghan Embassy in Iran received by Pajhwok Afghan News said that the embassy was responsible for…
KABUL’s Qatar office has met Iranian authorities in Tehran, the rebel group’s spokesman said on Tuesday. Suhail Shaheen tweeted a four-member delegation led by the deputy head of Taliban’s political office, Abdul Salam Hanafi, travelled to Iran. He said the…
KABUL Breshna Sherkat (DABS) said on Sunday. DABS in a statement said the power utility’s head met with a high-level Iranian delegation and discussed with them the mentioned issues on Saturday. The meeting was attended by Iranian deputy energy minister…
Iran shot down a US drone aircraft on Thursday as tension between the two countries remained at high due to recent development and US decline from the nuclear agreement. According to dawn, Iranian Revolutionary Guard said it shot…
KABUL Bank (DAB) has cited smuggling of US dollars from Afghanistan abroad as the reason behind devaluating Afghan currency. One US dollar was accounted for 75.6 afghanis on March 24, the beginning of the new solar year, compared to 79.70…
Seeking to bring down the political temperature in the Middle East, the United States has offered Iran open-ended negotiations. But Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who held out the offer on Sunday, made clear the US would continue…
MAKKAH (Pajhwok) Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman told an emergency Arab summit here on Thursday that decisive action was needed to stop Iranian "escalations" in the region following attacks on Gulf oil assets this month. King Salman…
Despite heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington, Iran has ruled out the possibility of war with the United States. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif was quoted as saying by the state-run IRNA on Saturday that his country, which…
Iran and China have agreed to back Afghan peace and reconciliation process, a media report said on Tuesday. The was stated during a meeting between Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araqchi and Special Envoy on…
Faced with mounting economic pressure from the United States, Iran says it may consider expelling Afghan refugees. America’s pressure on Iran has been on the rise after President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action…
Chabahar and Gwadar ports would be linked through a railways network, says the Iranian president. President Hassan Rouhani made the announcement at a joint press conference with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in Tehran on Monday He said…
KABUL (IOM) reported on Tuesday. The UN migration body said in a statement 88,516 Afghans returned to their homeland from Iran as the value of the local currency and job opportunities declined. Another 4,182 Afghans came back home from Pakistan.…
KABUL, an official said Wednesday. Aziz Ahmad Sarbaz, head of the delegation for receiving Afghan prisoners from Iran, told a press conference in Kabul that around 4,000 to 5,000 Afghans were imprisoned in Iran. He said 650 of the Afghan…
KABUL of ‘a strong response’ to a suicide attack in the disputed Kashmir valley, Tehran also accused Islamabad on Saturday of involvement in a suicide attack on the Revolutionary Guards. The Wednesday bombing involving a suicide attacker killed at least…
A suicide bombing killed at least 27 personnel of Iran’s elite guard and wounded more than 20 in Sistan-Balochistan province, Iranian media reported on Thursday. The suicide attack occurred in the Chanali of the province on Wednesday when…
One member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards was killed and five others wounded after militants stormed a base hosting an official ceremony in Sistan-Balochistan province, media reports said Saturday. Official celebrations to the mark the 40th anniversary of its…
KABUL. Speaking at a meeting of the International Contact Group on Afghanistan, Iran’s representative renewed Tehran’s support for the Afghan peace process. The Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) quoted Rassoul Eslami as commending the role played by the Ghani administration…
KABUL against the Daesh terrorist group, Chairman of Iran’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Hashmatullah Falahat Pishe said on Monday. Speaking to the Iranian Workers News Agency (ILNA), Pishe stressed that this sought-for cooperation “isn’t tantamount to recognition or…
KABUL spokesmen.’ On his Facebook page, Murtazavi wrote “If Iran believes in a political settlement (in Afghanistan of Iran.” “Why is Iran not solving its own political problems which have confronted that country with crisis for years. Was it better…
KABUL and Afghan government to negotiate. Iranian secretary of Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani to IRNA on Monday that the Taliban had been seeking peace with the Afghan government and Tehran was helping the process to promote stability and…
