Iranian committing more crimes against Afghans
Iran ran into a major crisis in May this year after Iranian border guards killed Afghan nationals in an area near the border with Afghanistan.
This crisis compounds
the problems the Islamic Republic has been facing since the downing of a
Ukrainian passenger plane in January this year.
The two events bring to
the surface a dangerous trait of Iran's mullahs: they never regret the crimes
they commit.
Iranian border guards
forced Afghan nationals to jump into the sea as they prevented them crossing
into Iran. Dozens of Afghan nationals died as a result.
Protests erupted
outside the Iranian embassy in Afghan capital Kabul on June 7. The demonstrators
criticized Tehran and called for closing down the Iranian embassy in
Afghanistan.
This event featured
highly in talks in Tehran between the Afghan and Iranian foreign ministers on
June 21.
The two foreign
ministers also discussed economic, health and media cooperation. They also
discussed the conditions of Afghan nationals in Iran.
At the end of their
talks, the two ministers signed a comprehensive cooperation pact.
Iranian-Afghan
demands
Iran refuses to
denounce those who carried out the aforementioned crime against the Afghan
nationals. It even warns Afghanistan against media attacks against Iran.
Iranian Foreign
Minister Javad Zarif warned against what he described as "dishonest"
activities that seek to undermine cooperation between Tehran and Kabul.
The Afghan Foreign
Ministry asked Iran to bring those responsible for the death of the Afghan
citizens to account. It said it presented all the documents proving the
involvement of Iranian border guards in the crime to Iran.
However, Iran said its
border guards had nothing to do with the death of the Afghan citizens.
