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Iran referred to as for the US to launch Afghanistan’s frozen funds, however stated it isn’t prepared to acknowledge the Taliban-led authorities following high-level talks between the Islamist group and Iranian officers.
Taliban International Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi visited Tehran over the weekend for talks a spokesperson stated would give attention to “political, financial, transit and refugee points between Afghanistan and Iran.”
Iran shares a 900-kilometer (560-mile) border with Afghanistan and hosts some 3.6 million Afghan refugees. Because the Taliban’s takeover in August, a whole bunch of hundreds of Afghan civilians have escaped into neighboring Iran utilizing casual border crossings.
On Monday, Iranian International Ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh described the talks as “optimistic,” however stated Iran is “not on the level of formally recognizing” Afghanistan’s new leaders.
“The current condition of Afghanistan is a serious concern for the Islamic Republic of Iran and the go to of the Afghan delegation was throughout the framework of those issues,” Khatibzadeh stated in a press convention on Monday, in line with Al Jazeera.
On the invitation of Iran, a senior delegation led by the International Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi left for Iran at the moment. pic.twitter.com/hroHIlbZfO
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No nation has supplied official recognition to Taliban, which in September unveiled an all-male cupboard that features a US-designated terrorist and is dominated by ethnic Pashtuns. Final week, Iran’s ambassador to Kabul, Bahador Aminian, informed TOLOnews that Iran will only recognize an “inclusive” authorities fashioned by the Taliban.
Shiite Iran didn’t acknowledge the Sunni motion when it was final in energy from 1996 to 2001, throughout which the Taliban violently oppressed Afghanistan’s Shiite Hazaras and different ethnic minorities. The Taliban’s execution of not less than eight Iranian diplomats and a journalist within the northern Afghan metropolis of Mazar-e-Sharif in 1998 introduced Iran and the Taliban to the brink of conflict.
Iran, nevertheless, has pledged to work with Afghanistan’s new Taliban leaders regardless of their traditionally rocky relationship. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has described the US’ “military defeat” in Afghanistan as a possibility for peace.
In the course of the talks in Tehran, Iran International Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian pledged humanitarian assist for Afghanistan and referred to as for the discharge of the Afghan authorities’s monetary property, which the Biden administration froze in August.
“The assets of Afghanistan blocked by America … must be used for humanitarian functions and enchancment of the residing situations in Afghanistan,” Amir-Abdollahian stated.
Throughout his go to to Iran, the Taliban’s international minister additionally met with exiled resistance leaders Ahmad Massoud and Ismail Khan and “assured them that anybody can come to Afghanistan and dwell with none issues.”
“It is house to all, and we don’t create insecurity or different issues for anybody. Everyone can come freely and live,” Muttaqi stated in a video posted to Twitter Monday.
