A week after the Taliban's foreign ministry announcement of giving out passports to Afghan immigrants in Iran, the Afghan embassy in Tehran, which is under the group’s control, suspended issuance of passports to adults.
The embassy said that passports have been distributed to children who are under 10 years of age.
On Thursday, Fazl Mohammad Haqqani, the Taliban’s acting ambassador in Tehran, told Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting news agency, that the process of issuing passports in the embassy is only for children under the age of 10, students and holders of electronic ID cards.
However, he spoke about the suspension of the passport issuance for adults for an indefinite period and requested Afghan immigrants to not go to the embassy.
In addition, this Taliban official in Tehran had recently demanded a solution to the issue of documentation of newborns Afghans and birth certificates not being recognised by the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
This comes as about a week ago, the Taliban's Ministry of Foreign Affairs had announced the start of the passport issuance process for Afghan citizens in Iran.
On Monday, August 28, Zia Ahmad Takal, the deputy spokesperson of the Taliban’s foreign ministry, had said that priority will be given to newborn children. In addition to not having a passport, having no electronic ID cards is one of the other problems of Afghan immigrants in Iran.
