Iran Press/ Iran News: Deputy Foreign Minister Mohsen Baharvand, Assistant Foreign Minister Seyyed Rasoul Mousavi and Border Guard representative, will travel to Kabul today to investigate the drowning of Afghan migrants.
Iran has documents denying the incident in its territory.
On May 1, Afghan media quoted some people who had allegedly entered Iran illegally from Herat province in Afghanistan and drowned in the Hari River, claiming that they had been tortured by Iranian border guards and forced to throw themselves into the river.
This was the pretext behind the efforts of the anti-Iranian Persian-language media to destroy the relations between Iran and Afghanistan. About 150 km from the Iran-Afghanistan border is the Hari River, which is dry in summer and a transit point for migrants, and is watery in winter and roaring especially the dams are opened. Every year, about 500,000 illegal immigrants from Afghanistan travel to Iran.
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The agreement of the border commissioners between Iran and Afghanistan, signed in 1956, is the basis for resolving such issues between the two countries, and the capacities of this agreement have been exploited many times.
Iran has extensive evidence that this has not happened on Iran's side of the border. According to Seyyed Abbas Mousavi, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in terms of objective facts, according to the confirmed reports received from the Border Guard of the Islamic Republic of Iran, not only such incident has not occurred in the mentioned date and in the claimed area, no clash has occurred between Iran and Afghan nationals, let alone allegations of transferring people to camps or inhumane treatment, but at that time, due to special weather conditions in the region, not a single Afghan citizen entered the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In recent months, the Islamic Republic of Iran has not set up any permanent camps in the border areas, given the outbreak of coronavirus and the goal of keeping border guards away from the risk of contracting coronavirus. And any claims, such as the transfer of Afghan nationals to the camp or their forced labor, and the like, are false and the very nature of these claims, as it turns out, it was made by those who are unaware of the new situation on the Iranian side of the border.
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