{"id":20780,"date":"2026-08-31T14:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/31\/taliban-muttagi-meets-iran-foreign-ministry-official\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T14:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:45:15","slug":"taliban-muttagi-meets-iran-foreign-ministry-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/31\/taliban-muttagi-meets-iran-foreign-ministry-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban says Muttaqi meets Iranian foreign ministry official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration&#8217;s foreign ministry said Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi met with Mohammad Reza Bahrami, head of the South Asia department at Iran&#8217;s Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, the meeting discussed Afghanistan-Iran relations as well as regional developments.<\/p>\n<p>Citing Muttaqi, the Taliban administration said he described relations between the two countries as expanding and stressed the importance of making use of available opportunities in various sectors.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban administration&#8217;s foreign ministry said the Iranian Foreign Ministry representative also assessed Kabul-Tehran relations as positive and said it was important to continue talks and engagements at different levels.<\/p>\n<p>Iran is one of Afghanistan&#8217;s neighbours, and issues related to bilateral relations, migration, trade and regional developments are among the recurring topics of discussion between officials from both sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban foreign ministry says Amir Khan Muttaqi met an Iranian official to discuss bilateral ties, migration, trade and regional developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20780","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\/20780","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=20780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}