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that its 2014 award presented to Molavi Abdol Hamid, the Sunni Muslim leader for Friday prayers in Zahedan, will be withdrawn because for his support of the Taliban.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 [...]
Dissident artist Homayoon Zarian fled Iran after spending more than a year in jail and ended up living as an asylum seeker in Afghanistan for seven years. (IranWire) By Daniel Dayan August 24, 2021 Asylum law in Afghanistan was never ratified by the Afghan parliament before the Taliban’s takeover in mid-August. The only [...]
A plane prepares to land at Mehrabad airport in Tehran on January 18, 2016. (AFP) August 24, 2021 Armed hijackers took control of a Ukrainian plane and flew it to Iran after it arrived in Afghanistan to evacuate Ukrainians, Russian news agency TASS reported on Tuesday, citing Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister. “Last Sunday, [...]
A car pasts behind a oil prices board d at Ahmad Yar Group fuel station shows on outskirt of Kabul, Afghanistan January 27, 2016. (REUTERS) August 23, 2021 Iran restarted exports of gasoline and gasoil to Afghanistan a few days ago, following a request from the Taliban, Iran's Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products [...]
A U.S. Chinook helicopter flies over the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. (AP) By Phil Flynn August 21, 2021 America's chaotic retreat from Afghanistan has left U.S. taxpayers with billions of unpaid bills and is going to give China and Iran the spoils of war. While US citizens in the country were waiting [...]
Internally displaced Afghan families sit in the courtyard of the Wazir Akbar Khan mosque in Kabul on August 13, 2021. (AFP) August 19, 2021 The Iranian provinces of South Khorasan, Sistan and Baluchistan and Razavi Khorasan have been ordered by Iranian officials to turn back fleeing Afghans on the border. The move was announced Hossein [...]
