An Iranian photojournalist, who was held by the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan, has been launched following mediation by high-level Iranian diplomatic authorities.
Tasnim News Agency, the place Mohammad Hossein Velayati works, mentioned in a report on Saturday that the photojournalist had been handed over to the Iranian Embassy in Kabul.
It cited Taliban’s deputy spokesperson Bilal Karimi as confirming Velayati’s launch.
The photojournalist, in response to Anadolu sources, was handed over to the Iranian Embassy within the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Friday night time however has not but returned to Iran.
According to the sources, Velayati has been briefly barred from leaving the nation pending inquiry.
Taliban authorities haven’t but offered the rationale for his detention.
According to Tasnim News Agency, the photojournalist stayed in Afghanistan for 10 days with authorized paperwork and was arrested on the Kabul International Airport moments earlier than he was scheduled to catch a flight again to Tehran final week.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian took to Twitter on Friday to say that “intensive diplomatic and consular efforts” had been underway to safe Velayati’s launch.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani additionally mentioned that the difficulty was being adopted up by means of diplomatic channels with Afghan authorities.
Senior Iranian lawmaker and spokesperson for the parliament presidium, Nizamuddin Mousavi, on Friday criticized the Taliban over Velayati’s arrest, saying the group has not but modified its method.
Iran and Afghanistan share a 900 km (559-mile) border that stretches from Turkmenistan within the north to Pakistan within the south, a largely porous frontier that has been a supply of stress between them.
Since the Taliban got here again to energy in August 2021, relations between Tehran and Kabul have been marked by stress and hostility, starting from water row to frequent border skirmishes.
In latest months, the long-running dispute over shared water sources from the Helmand River, which originates within the mountains close to Kabul, has infected tensions between the 2 sides.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
