Tehran officially accepts the Taliban’s chargé d’affaires
The Iranian Foreign Ministry hands over the Afghan embassy in Tehran to a Taliban diplomat. The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry says that the end of one diplomat’s mission and the transfer of the embassy’s affairs to another diplomat from the same embassy does not signify a change in the legal status of the embassy.
Thus, Tehran is among the regional capitals that have officially accepted the chargé d’affaires appointed by the Taliban.
A source at the Afghan embassy in Tehran said that on Saturday, February 18, Rasul Mousavi, an assistant to the Iranian Foreign Ministry, summoned Abdul Qayum Sulaimani, the head of the embassy and a diplomat from the previous Afghan government, to the Foreign Ministry and officially informed him that the Islamic Republic of Iran has accepted the head appointed by the Taliban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and you must hand over the embassy’s affairs to Fazl Ahmad Haqqani as introduced by the Taliban’s Foreign Minister.