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From: Ina Iankulova (iiankulova@sorosny.org)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 10:27:53 EDT
NEW IRANIAN AMBASSADOR FOR AFGHANISTAN
Mohammad Zaeri Amirani has been selected as Iran's ambassador-designate to Afghanistan, IRNA reported on 16 April. Amirani served previously as the consul-general in Karachi. He replaces Mohammad Ebrahim Taherian, who has been in Kabul since November 2001. Taherian has a long professional relationship with Afghanistan. He served as ambassador to Afghanistan once before, when he helped channel Iranian aid to Shi'a mujahedin groups, and he also served in Tajikistan, where some mujahedin groups were based. In the late 1990s Taherian handled the Afghanistan account from Tehran. Taherian was the ambassador to Sarajevo from 1994-98, when Tehran was channeling arms to Muslim groups in the Balkans. BS
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