Publish dateThursday 23 January 2025 - 18:35
Story Code : 305662
Iran’s opposition to the former Afghan regime’s insistence on listing the Islamic Emirate as a terrorist group and suspending the comprehensive document on strategic cooperation between the two countries
A senior diplomat and former director general of South Asia at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in a note regarding the important visit of the country’s Foreign Minister, the first visit by an Iranian foreign minister to Kabul after the Islamic Emirate came to power, emphasized the necessity of signing a document on leadership cooperation between the two countries. In a disclosure, he said: During the previous republican regime in Afghanistan, Iran opposed Kabul’s insistence on listing the Islamic Emirate as a terrorist group in this document and announcing cooperation between the two countries against it, while negotiations between the two sides were ongoing in Doha. Dr. Seyed Rasoul Mousavi called on the Islamic Emirate to pay attention to the important point that “it was never included in the national list of terrorist groups of the Islamic Republic of Iran” and because of this, the comprehensive document on cooperation between the two countries was suspended.
Afghan Voice Agency (AVA) - Tehran: The text of this important note by Dr. Seyed Rasoul Mousavi, an expert on Afghanistan issues and former Director General of South Asia at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, regarding the visit of the Foreign Minister of this country to Kabul, which was published in the IRAF News Agency, is as follows:
"According to the published news, Iranian Foreign Minister Dr. Araqchi will soon travel to Afghanistan at the head of a political and economic delegation.
Dr. Araqchi's Telegram page states: Seyed Abbas Araqchi, Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, will soon travel to Kabul to hold talks with the governing body of Afghanistan, and it was added that it is intended that a range of topics and issues of interest or concern to both sides will be discussed and examined during this one-day visit, which is the Foreign Minister's first visit to Kabul since his appointment to this position.
As stated in the above news, Araqchi's visit to Afghanistan is the first visit by the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Kabul during the new period of Taliban rule (Islamic Emirate), therefore it is important for both neighboring countries, Iran and Afghanistan, from different perspectives.
Of course, Afghanistan has previously had visits to Iran at the level of economic and political deputy prime ministers, foreign ministers, and several ministers and high-ranking judicial and executive officials at various levels, and from the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Minister of Energy, governors of neighboring provinces, and several officials at the levels of deputy judiciary and deputy ministers have also visited Afghanistan, but Dr. Araqchi's visit is the first visit at the level of foreign minister in the new period.
This visit itself, regardless of the content of the negotiations that will take place with various officials, carries an important political message, and this message reflects the Islamic Republic of Iran's decision to develop comprehensive relations with its neighbor, Afghanistan, because the news release states: Representatives of various ministries and an economic and trade delegation will accompany the Foreign Minister on this visit.
Now that the Islamic Republic of Iran is making such an important political message public about the decision to develop comprehensive relations with Afghanistan by sending such a delegation headed by its foreign minister to Kabul, the other side is expected to welcome this important message and take reciprocal steps.
In my opinion, as an expert on Afghan issues, the most important gap in the relations between the two countries is the lack of a comprehensive long-term cooperation agreement between Iran and Afghanistan.
In the period before the current government, long-term negotiations were underway between Iran and Afghanistan on a document called the "Comprehensive Cooperation Document on Iran and Afghanistan" that had reached the final stage, but was stopped due to one issue and was not signed.
I think it would be interesting for everyone, especially the current Afghan officials, to know what that one issue was. The Comprehensive Cooperation Document on Iran and Afghanistan was organized into five sections: security, trade, water, refugees, and education and culture.
In the security section, there was this document that the Afghan negotiating party at that time insisted on including, naming the Taliban (Islamic Emirate) as a terrorist group and declaring cooperation between the two countries against it.
The Iranian side opposed the inclusion of the relevant clause in the text, arguing that you are negotiating with them in Doha and releasing each other's prisoners, and that there is an inclusive government in the text of the negotiations for the future of Afghanistan. Why are you demanding that we sign such a clause?
Today, when some countries are trying to send a positive message to Kabul by announcing the withdrawal of the Taliban (Islamic Emirate) from the national list of terrorist groups and using it as a means to develop their relations with Afghanistan, it would be good for the current Afghan authorities to pay attention to this important point that the Taliban (Islamic Emirate) was never included in the national list of terrorist groups of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the comprehensive cooperation document between the two countries was suspended due to this issue.
"From an expert perspective, I think it would be good to raise the issue of the unfinished negotiations on the Comprehensive Cooperation Document between the two countries during the Iranian Foreign Minister's visit to Afghanistan. Afghan officials are also expected to pay attention to reviving the negotiations on the Comprehensive Cooperation Document, given the importance of this visit and the explanation given about the reason for the suspension of the negotiations on the Document, which will benefit the two neighbors, especially when the document is signed, as the issue of recognizing the new Afghan government will automatically be resolved."
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