{"id":19972,"date":"2026-08-20T07:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T07:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/20\/taliban-stops-illegal-transfer-170000-dollars-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T07:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T07:30:18","slug":"taliban-stops-illegal-transfer-170000-dollars-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/20\/taliban-stops-illegal-transfer-170000-dollars-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban says it stopped illegal transfer of $170,000 to Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration says a man has been arrested at the Islam Qala border crossing in Herat on suspicion of trying to illegally transfer $170,000 to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Taliban-run Interior Ministry said the man was identified and detained by customs officials at the Islam Qala crossing. According to the ministry, the money was intended to be transferred to Iran illegally.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said the detained man has been handed over to the relevant authorities for further investigation. The Taliban has not yet released further details about the individual&#8217;s identity or how the money was discovered.<\/p>\n<p>The Islam Qala border crossing in Herat province is considered one of Afghanistan&#8217;s most important border crossings with Iran, and a significant portion of trade between the two countries passes through this route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban officials say a man was arrested at Afghanistan&#8217;s Islam Qala crossing for trying to illegally transfer $170,000 to Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19972","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=19972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}