Tehran ‘Unhappy’ With Taliban’s Stance On Shooting Of Afghan Migrants At Border

An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said that Tehran was "surprised and upset" that "some Taliban officials" took the news of the shooting of Afghan migrants by Iranian border guards seriously.

Esmail Baghaei once again called the shooting of Afghans on the Iranian border as "baseless news".

During a press conference on Monday, November 4, the official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran announced, "The Afghan authorities issued a statement on this matter. "We are surprised and unhappy that there was an absence of news and that some Afghan officials have taken this baseless news seriously."

Haalvsh, a human rights organisation that reports on Sistan and Baluchestan region, first reported the shooting of Afghan migrants on Sunday evening, October 13, in the Kalgan-Saravan area. The news sparked global reactions.

According to the organisation, Iranian border forces in Saravan opened fire on a group of 300 Afghan migrants who were trying to enter Iran, killing and wounding dozens.

Two weeks after the publication of these reports, the Taliban confirmed the incident, announcing that two dead bodies and 34 injured in the deadly shooting and explosion of mines on the Iranian border had been transferred to Afghanistan.

The Taliban also noted that a number of other victims of the incident are in Iran and Pakistan, and that the group is trying to transfer them to Afghanistan.