Embassy Warns of Hostile Bid to Harm Iran-Afghanistan Ties

Date: 10 April 2022 - 21:51

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TEHRAN – Iran’s embassy in Afghanistan has warned of hostile media attempts at harming relations between the two neighbors, dismissing recent fake reports about Iranian police allegedly mistreating Afghans.
The embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Kabul emphasized in a statement that Iran’s policy on Afghanistan is based upon good neighborliness and mutual respect.
The statement rejected “baseless and inauthentic” reports that Iranian police had mistreated the Afghan nationals in an organized manner.
It said a preplanned and purposeful media current is aiming to harm relations between the two counties and foment phobia about Iran in Afghanistan, and vice versa.
Iran has been decently hosting Afghan refugees for over 40 years and is currently playing host to at least five million Afghans, the statement said. It said Afghan citizens receive the same services in Iran which Iranian nationals are entitled to.
Following the sudden sweep of Afghanistan by the Taliban which sparked a new wave of refugees toward Iran, the Islamic Republic has not prevented Afghans from

entering the country even though it is grappling with the impact of cruel sanctions on Tehran, the embassy said.

Following a fatal stabbing attack by an Afghan national in Iran’s northeastern city of Mashhad that left two Muslim scholars martyred and another injured, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi warned that colonial power were resorting to ethnic and religious issues to incite division between the neighbors.

In comments on Thursday, Iran’s Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi described the stabbing attack as a terrorist action to which the enemy has resorted to foment religious division between friendly nations, stressing that unity between Iran and Afghanistan won’t be harmed by such moves.