Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers patrol the area near a checkpoint recaptured from the Taliban, in the Alishing district of Laghman province, Afghanistan July 8, 2021. (REUTERS) September 2, 2021 Reports and images on social media received from Iran indicate that tanks and military vehicles which belonged to the Afghan army were seen in Tehran and [...]
Taliban fighters are pictured in a vehicle along the roadside in Herat, Afghanistan, Aug 10, 2021. (Stock image) By Saeid Golkar and Kasra Aarabi September 1, 2021 For the past 42 years, Iran’s clerical regime has been unsuccessful in its attempts to expand its presence in Afghanistan, but the Taliban’s takeover promises to [...]
Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada is seen in an undated photograph, posted on a Taliban Twitter feed on May 25, 2016. (Reuters) September 1, 2021 The Taliban are designing a government based on Iran’s model through appointing the group’s leader Hibatullah Akhundzada as the Supreme Leader of Afghanistan, CNN-News18 reported on Tuesday. While Iran has [...]
incident took place on the morning of Thursday, August 25, 10 kilometers down the Rudbar-Jiroft highway. (Supplied) August 27, 2021 Four Afghan citizens are understood to have been killed and 11 others injured in a car crash near the city of Jiroft in Kerman province, eastern Iran. Peyman Saberian, head of the Islamic Republic of [...]
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi is pictured during his a press conference in Tehran, on June 21, 2021. (AFP) August 27, 2021 Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi called on Thursday for cooperation between Iran and Pakistan, to promote “security and calm” in Afghanistan. His remarks were made during a meeting with Pakistan’s top diplomat Shah [...]
The minister said the hijackers were armed but didn't say anything else about the plane and who was on it. (Getty) August 26, 2021 Iran and Ukraine have denied reports from Kyiv on Tuesday that a Ukrainian plane was hijacked by armed militants after it landed in Kabul over the weekend, who then [...]
Imam Khomeini International Airport. Tehran. Undated. (Supplied) August 26, 2021 Afghanistan KAM Air private airline has asked the Islamic Republic to transfer some of its planes to Iran amid chaos and threats in Kabul’s international airport, the spokesman of Iran’s civil aviation agency said Thursday. Mohammad-Hassan Zibakhsh was quoted by the Iranian Student News [...]
Iranian FM Javad Zarif (R) is shown meeting with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (C) of the Taliban in Tehran, Jan 31. (AFP) By Track Persia August 25, 2021 The Iranian regime is one the first regimes that publicly cheered the victory of the Taliban over the United States after the latter has started [...]
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a meeting in Tehran on October 18, 2017. (Reuters) By Cyrus Yaqubi August 25, 2021 The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban and the turmoil that has shocked the world over has given the Iranian regime an opportunity to use it to put pressure on the West, and especially [...]
Molavi Abdol Hamid, the Sunni Muslim leader for Friday prayers in Zahedan. (Supplied) August 24, 2021 The Human Rights Defenders Center has issued a statement announcing that its 2014 award presented to Molavi Abdol Hamid, the Sunni Muslim leader for Friday prayers in Zahedan, will be withdrawn because for his support of the Taliban. The statement, dated August 24, said the group rejected Abdol [...]
