Emergency medical staff and nurses wearing protective suits, help while transferring a patient with coronavirus to Masih Daneshvari Hospital, in Tehran, March 30, 2020. (Reuters) By Bagher Ebrahimi April 10, 2020 When the family arrived at the hospital in Varamin near Tehran, doctors turned him away. Your son is young, they told the parents, [...]
Afghan officials say they fear Iran could possibly force as many as a million Afghans out of Iran. (APA) April 7, 2020 An Associated Press report says at least 200,000 Afghans living in Iran have been returning home in recent weeks because of Iran’s COVID-19 outbreak. The account says the Afghan nationals in [...]
Parviz Fattah head of the Mostazafan Foundation speaking at a press conference after his appointment. (ISNA) April 06, 2020 An Iranian newspaper criticised a close associate of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday for disclosing that slain military commander Qassem Soleimani paid salaries to fighters of an Iranian proxy group in Syria. [...]
Thousands of Afghan refugees re-enter Afghanistan at the Islam Qala border crossing with Iran, in western Herat Province, March 18, 2020. (AP) April 1, 2020 While other nations have sealed their borders with Iran to limit the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Afghanistan said on Monday that it would keep its main [...]
Afghan returnees from Iran carry their backpacks as they arrive in Herat on August 4, 2018. (AFP) March 17, 2020 Nearly 70,000 Afghans have returned from virus-hit Iran in the past 20 days, an official said Monday, overwhelming health workers at border crossings and raising fears of a major outbreak in the impoverished [...]
Four thousand children in Tehran spend their days scavenging garbage bins and dumps and 80 percent are foreigners. (MEHR) March 16, 2020 Iranian officials say government entities are trying to send back working children who live in Iran back to their countries, primarily Afghanistan, due to the coronavirus epidemic. Around three million Afghans [...]
People queue in line to receive protection packages for COVID-19 coronavirus disease provided by the Basij, a militia loyal to Iran's Islamic republic establishment. March 12, 2020. (AFP) March 13, 2020 Pakistan’s National Security Council (NSC) announced on Friday it will seal the country’s borders with Afghanistan and Iran for two weeks to [...]
Truck drivers sit on a road near the closed Pakistan-Iran border in Taftan on Feb. 25, 2020 as fears over the spread of coronavirus escalate following an outbreak in neighbouring Iran. (AFP) March 13, 2020 Iran’s worsening coronavirus outbreak is driving some of the country’s millions of Afghan migrants and refugees to return [...]
IRGC has sent thousands of Afghans and Pakistani fighters to fight in Syria. (Supplied) March 2, 2020 In intense clashes taking place in Syria’s Idlib province in recent days 21 members of Iran-backed Afghan and Pakistani militias were killed, Qom News an Iranian website has reported. The report says 18 members of Pakistani [...]
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, May 23, 2018. (Reuters) February 29, 2020 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday warned Iran not to scuttle an upcoming agreement with the Taliban, accusing the US adversary of seeking to be a “spoiler.” Pompeo confirmed that a one-week partial truce was holding with the Taliban, who are [...]
