Abdul Qayyum Soleimani and a group of diplomats, associates and local employees left the Afghan embassy in Tehran.
Abdul Qayyum Soleimani, the former head of the Afghan Embassy in Tehran, after finishing his work, officially handed over the embassy’s 7 hawks along with its documents and equipment to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran. His mission and departure from this embassy. According to some sources, a group of diplomats, associates and local employees also left the Afghan embassy in Tehran together with Soleimani.
A source in the Afghan embassy in Tehran said on the evening of Saturday 7th of Hut that along with Abdul Qayyum Soleimani, the former head of the embassy, a group of diplomats, firefighters and local employees also left the place and stopped working.
Fazl Mohammad Haqqani, the first secretary of the Afghan Embassy and the senior diplomat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate, is going to start his activity as the new head of this embassy.
Meanwhile, in a letter, Haqqani asked the diplomats and employees of this embassy to continue their work and there is no objection to their presence and work.
Now it seems that with the mass departure of diplomats, dependents and local employees from the Afghan embassy in Tehran, the activity of this embassy has been disrupted and it will stop providing normal services to clients for some time.
It should be seen how the activity of this embassy will return to normal.
The Embassy of Afghanistan in Tehran welcomes more than a thousand visitors daily, especially people who come to this country to renew their passports or verify their identity.
On Monday last week, sources in the Afghan embassy in Tehran announced that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran has asked the head of the embassy, Abdul Qayyum Soleimani, to hand over his post to another diplomat of the embassy. Fazl Mohammad Haqqani. Haqqani, who is a diplomat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate, was introduced by this ministry as the new head of the Afghan embassy in Tehran, but at that time the head of the embassy and its diplomats opposed the transfer of this embassy. Embassy to Haqqani But finally, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran made its decision and officially accepted Fazl Mohammad Haqqani as the head of the Afghan Embassy.
Following the publication of this report, the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Nasser Kanani, in response to the question of the Ava reporter regarding the internal changes of the Afghan embassy in Tehran, stated: the end of the mission of a diplomat and entrusting the affairs of the embassy to another diplomat from the same embassy complex means no A change in the legal status of that embassy.
The spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran added: There has been no change in the positions of the Islamic Republic of Iran regarding the way of interaction with the interim government of Afghanistan.
Abdul Qayyum Soleimani continued his work as the head of this embassy a year and a half ago, following the resignation of Abdul Ghafoor Liwal, the Afghan ambassador in Tehran. During this period, especially with some reforms and reconstruction of the Afghan Embassy in Tehran, he was able to provide unprecedented facilities for immigrants and visitors that cannot be ignored.
The building of the Afghan Embassy in Tehran’s Pakistan Street, which was previously only dedicated to the consular section, has limited dimensions and capacity that does not meet the needs of immigrants. At the same time, after the end of the lease period of the political building of the Afghan Embassy in Iran Zamin Street, other parts of the embassy were also moved to the consulate building, and because of that, the density of population and work reached its peak. Its limited capacity
In the past years, many attempts were made to buy suitable and large land with the support of Kabul to create a large complex for the establishment of the Afghan embassy in Tehran or to rent a large place, but all these efforts did not succeed. .
The location of the Afghan embassy in the distant years was a large place and in a very suitable place, but as a result of the corruption and misbehavior of its officials and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, this position, which is equivalent to the current position of the Iranian embassy in Kabul, was taken from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. came out
The Afghan embassy is the most profitable Afghan embassy abroad, but it is the least noticed in terms of revenue. Due to the increase in the price of the dollar in Iran, Afghan immigrants have always demanded to reduce the cost of consular services and convert it from the dollar to the Iranian currency, which has not been agreed to so far.
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