{"id":13458,"date":"2026-05-20T14:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/20\/afghan-taliban-envoy-iran-talks-herat-mazar-railway-refugee-issues\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:17:14","slug":"afghan-taliban-envoy-iran-talks-herat-mazar-railway-refugee-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/20\/afghan-taliban-envoy-iran-talks-herat-mazar-railway-refugee-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Taliban Envoy Holds Talks with Iranian Official in Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghan Embassy in Tehran announced that Mawlawi Fazl Mohammad Haqqani, the head of the embassy, met and held talks with Mohammadreza Bahrami, Deputy Minister and Director-General for South Asia at Iran&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to the embassy\u2019s statement, the main topics of the meeting were economic and trade issues as well as the situation of Afghan refugees residing in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion also included the Herat\u2013Mazar-i-Sharif railway project, a development that, if implemented, could play a significant role in connecting the western and northern regions of Afghanistan and boosting regional trade.<\/p>\n<p>The embassy added that challenges faced by Afghan refugees in Iran were also part of the meeting\u2019s agenda. In recent years, refugees have encountered difficulties related to residency, access to services, and legal matters. It is expected that the Taliban administration will engage more responsibly with host countries to protect the rights of Afghan citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the two sides exchanged views on some issues related to the internal affairs of the Afghan Embassy in Tehran. No further details have been released about the practical outcomes of these talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan Taliban envoy meets Iranian official in Tehran to discuss economic ties, refugee issues, and Herat-Mazar railway project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}