The Iranian embassy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, remains open and functioning normally, state media reported on Tuesday (17/8), while a day earlier Tehran hailed the “military failure” of the United States, and as a number of its enemy, their forces from Afghanistan.
Many countries remove their embassy staff from Kabul due to security concerns following the Taliban occupation of the city, which drove thousands of people to the airport in an attempt to flee the country.
Shiite Iran has been a longtime enemy of the Sunni Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan, but in recent years officials have met openly with Taliban leaders. In July, Tehran hosted a meeting of representatives of the then Afghan government with a high-level Taliban political committee, according to the Athens News Agency.
“THE embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Kabul is open and fully operational. “Iran’s consulate general in Herat is also open and operational,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh, according to the IRNA news agency, without elaborating.
For his part, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday (August 16th) that “the military failure of the United States in Afghanistan and the withdrawal of its forces offers an opportunity to establish lasting peace in the war-torn country.”
The Taliban They ordered their fighters to be disciplined and not to enter diplomatic buildings or disturb embassy vehicles, a high-ranking official of the organization said today.
On Sunday, Khatibzadeh said Iran had reduced the operation of its consulates in the Afghan cities of Mazar-i-Sharif, Jalalabad and Kandahar.
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