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Deputy FM meets with Abdullah on Harirud incident

reporter 1222 — Wed, 27 May 2020 08:02:13 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal Affairs Mohsen Baharvand and Head of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah reviewed the results of a probe into a deadly Harirud incident along the Iran-Afghanistan borders.

Heading a high-ranking delegation, Baharvand met with Abdullah in Kabul on Tuesday night.

During the meeting, Baharvand underlined the need for cooperation of both countries within the framework of the joint committee to probe the case.

Abdullah stressed the good neighborliness between Iran and Afghanistan, saying that his country wants a serious and fair investigation into the human tragedy.

Earlier in the day, the Iranian delegation held a meeting with an Afghan delegation headed by Foreign Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar in Kabul.

During the meeting, Atmar called for Iran’s full cooperation on joint investigations related to the Harirud incident.

“The purpose of this research is to get the facts, to take legal action against the perpetrators, and to take the necessary measures to prevent such unfortunate incidents in the future, which may affect the relations between the two friendly and neighboring countries,” he said.

On May 1, some claims surfaced in media reports that Iranian border guards had tortured and thrown as many as 57 Afghans into the Hari River (Harirud) in western Herat province to prevent their illegal entry into Iran. The Khaama Press News Agency said at least 23 of them drowned in Harirud.

Tehran has roundly rejected the claims, saying the incident took place on the Afghan side of the border and Iranian forces had no role in the incident.

Iran has extensive evidence that the incident has not happened on its borders. According to Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi, the confirmed reports received from the border guards of the Islamic Republic of Iran show that such an incident has not occurred on the mentioned date and location. He noted that Iran has not been associated with Afghan migrants and the claims of transferring people to camps or inhumane treatment are completely baseless. He added that due to weather conditions of the region, not a single Afghan citizen entered the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran on that date.

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Harirchi: COVID-19 infections declining in Tehran

reporter 1222 — Sat, 09 May 2020 12:42:20 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Deputy Minister of Health Iraj Harirchi said that the number of hospitalized patients, clients, and ICU admissions, as well as deaths from the COVID-19, has been decreasing in Tehran.

Harirchi made the remarks about COVID-19 on Saturday at a press conference through video conference.

In the last few weeks, the trend of patients infected with the coronavirus in Tehran is declining, but the statistics in Tehran can still be significant, he said.

As of Saturday, the total number of COVID-19 cases in Iran passed 106,000, of whom 6,589 lost their lives to the deadly virus.

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Iran Deputy Minister urges passive defense to be ready

reporter 1222 — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 08:00:02 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Iranian deputy interior minister for security and law enforcement forces on Saturday urged the entire relevant bodies of the Passive Defense Organization to be prepared to counter any possible incident nationwide.

Attending the nationwide meeting of the provinces’ alleged committees, Hossein Zolfaqari said, “This issue is neither a theoretical matter nor a maneuver, but it is a strategy under which we must really get ready to counter any conditions.”

Zolfaqari, who serves as head of the Interior Ministry’s passive defense committee, went on to say that “we must pay serious attention to passive defense to continue rendering services to needy people and to handle the society’s affairs in any condition.”

Last week, the commander of the Passive Defense Organization said that no serious military threat against Iran existed at the moment.

“As the leader of the (Islamic) Revolution said, ‘the option of war is the final threat which has been thwarted by Iran’s defense power’,” said Brigadier General Gholamreza Jalali during a press conference.

Jalali said, “A new wave of threats in non-military fields has been launched by the United States, first of which is the economic war.”

“The first mission of the Passive Defense Organization is to watch out for threats, identify them and issue warnings in different fields.”

“The second mission of the organization is to decrease the vulnerability of the country’s infrastructure against national threats,” he remarked.

The commander went on to say, “The Islamic Republic is carrying out measures to strengthen its infrastructure against any type of threats.”

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