Iran-Afghanistan Relations

A deputy energy minister has expressed the hope that Iran and Afghanistan would expand cooperation in all areas of trade, transit, and electricity. Homayoun Haeri said this in a meeting with…

India’s total transit of goods to Afghanistan via Iran accounted for 28% of Chabahar’s total container traffic by the end of August, which marks the 20th month of the Indian operator’s presence…

The coronavirus crisis is expected to reduce Iran’s exports to Afghanistan to $2.9 billion in the current fiscal year (March 2020-21) compared with $3.2 billion in previous years, the chairman…

Two truckers have left Shahid Rajaee Port in the southern Hormozgan Province to Uzbekistan via Afghanistan to mark the first successful TIR pilot operation along the Iran-Afghanistan-Uzbekistan…

Chabahar Port and Afghanistan have signed a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday to expand cooperation in transportation, transit, investment and logistics.

Rouhollah Latifi, the spokesperson of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration said some Afghan transportation companies and truckers have closed the return route of Iranian trucks at…

Since the beginning of the current water year (last September) Iran unlike previous years has been receiving its fair share of water from Hirmand (Helmand) River as per an agreement signed with…

Khaf-Herat railroad project is scheduled to be launched this autumn (Sept. 22-Dec. 20), says the deputy head of Construction and Development of Transportation Infrastructure Company, affiliated…

A total of 54,000 tons of cement have been exported from Iran's southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan Province since the beginning of the current Iranian year on March 20, a local official said. "The…

Iranian and Afghan senior diplomats agreed to speed up the process of finalizing the comprehensive compact for cooperation between the two neighbors.  “We agreed to prepare the…

Recent negotiations between Iranian and Afghan officials were a constructive move that could help ease recent tensions between the two neighbors and settle longstanding conflicts, an analyst…

Iran issued nearly 200,000 work permits for Afghan citizens in the year ending March 2020, Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare Mohammad Shariatmadri said in a meeting with his…

An Afghan bank may open a branch in Iran's Chabahar Free Trade Zone, Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said, without mentioning the name. 

Top diplomats of Iran and Afghanistan have agreed on Sunday to finalize the joint comprehensive cooperation document within three months. 

More than $181 million worth of goods were exported from the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan to Afghanistan during the first two months of the current Iranian year (March 20-May 20)…

Iran exported 1.06 million tons of commodities worth $341 million to Afghanistan during the first two months of the current Iranian year (March 20-May 20) to register a 3.5% rise in tonnage and…

A total of 80,072 tons of goods were exported from Milak border terminal in the southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan Province to the neighboring Afghanistan during the first month of the current…

Two loaded containers were transported successfully from India’s Mumbai to Iran’s Chabahar, which exited through Dogharoun Border crossing to Afghanistan under cover of TIR Carnets (TIR…

Iran has exported $1.24 billion worth of commodities to Afghanistan since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2019) to top the list of world exporters to the neighboring country…

Afghanistan will not serve as a launching point for US attacks on any country in the region, the national security adviser of the South Asian state said in a meeting with Iran's ambassador in…

The second edition of the Regional Security Dialogue was held in Tehran on Wednesday, focusing on Afghanistan and ways of combating different forms of terrorism in the war-torn country.

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with a Taliban delegation led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the head of the group’s Qatar-based political bureau, in Tehran on Tuesday.

Iran's water rights from Hirmand (Helmand) River and the recurring dust storms in Sistan region were discussed at the 21st meeting of Joint Committee of the Hirmand Water Commissioners in Tehran…

Turkey is now overtaking Iran’s place in commercial exchanges with Afghanistan due to economic restrictions imposed by the Islamic Republic in the face of sanctions, says the head of Iran-…

Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian says Iran is willing to increase power exports to Afghanistan and also send experienced engineers to help rehabilitate that country’s broken power infrastructure…