An earthquake of magnitude 4.7 on the Richter Scale struck Afghanistan on Saturday (May 10) slightly after 10:30 am, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS) -- India's top agency for monitoring earthquakes.
The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum of the caretaker government of Afghanistan has announced that Iranian investors are interested in investing and operating in the mining sector of metals and oil and gas in the neighboring country.
The director general of the Iran Road Maintenance & Transportation Organization's transit office has said that according to Kabul officials, the reason for the delay of Iranian trucks at the Afghan border was testing and sampling of diesel fuel.
400 Iranian trucks carrying diesel from Iraq to Afghanistan have been stuck at the border for more than three weeks.
Afghanistan has kicked off exports to Europe by sending its first consignment of minerals to Turkiye via Iran, Afghan media reported on Saturday.
Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mehrdad Bazrpash has held talks with the Minister of Civil Aviation and Transport of Afghanistan’s ruling group of Taliban Hamidullah Akhundzada on the expansion of cooperation in the area of transportation.
Iran’s interior minister has said that a joint committee should be established between Iran and Afghanistan to determine water shares from the Helmand River.
"Afghan authorities are very keen on the start of activities by Iranian mining firms in Afghanistan," Deputy Ministry of Industry, Mine, and Trade for Mining and Mineral Processing Affairs said on Tuesday.
Head of Iranian Export Confederation believes if Iran hesitates it will lose Afghanistan trade market because other countries are entering it.
Iran is in talks with the Taliban to resume a project that extends a rail link from the border city of Khaf to the Afghan city of Herat.
