The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran denied handing over of the Afghan embassy to the Taliban in Tehran. The Iranian foreign ministry stressed that the recent development is part of the internal affairs of the embassy.
Iranian officials deny the handover of the Afghan embassy, while the Taliban representatives have taken control of the affairs in Tehran.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic has also emphasised that it has not received any documents or equipment belonging to the Afghan Embassy in Tehran.
The former diplomats in the Afghan embassy in Tehran had said that they have handed over the key of the embassy premises to the ministry of foreign affairs of Iran.
Taliban diplomats officially started their work at the Afghan embassy in Tehran on Sunday.
Dozens of diplomats and employees of the Afghan embassy in Tehran stopped working in protest against the Islamic Republic's decision to hand over the embassy to the Taliban.
Taliban officials have repeatedly announced their control over the embassy since Sunday and said that their representatives have been sent from Kabul to Tehran to run the embassy affairs.
The Iranian decision over the handover of Afghan embassy to the Taliban has been met with wide ranging reactions. Among others, the National Resistance Front called it "questionable" and the National Resistance Council for Salvation of Afghanistan called it "contrary to the national interests of Afghanistan".
Also, several Afghan immigrants in Iran have protested against the Iranian government’s decision.
Even the Iranian daily, Jomhori Islami, Tehran edition, wrote on Monday that entrusting the Afghan embassy to "a terrorist group" whose rule is temporary is very dangerous.
