On Thursday, the representative of the Taliban did not stand up to respect the national anthem of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the 38th International Islamic Unity Conference held in Tehran.
This action happened while Iran's president, Masoud Pezeshkian, was also present at the ceremony
The 38th International Conference of Islamic Unity was held on Thursday in the presence of representatives of Islamic countries. During the opening ceremony of this meeting, the national anthem of the Islamic Republic of Iran was played. In the video released since the beginning of the meeting, the representative of the Taliban government is the only one who did not stand up when the national anthem of the Islamic Republic was played.
The Taliban has not commented on this so far.
The authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran have not said anything about this encounter between Taliban diplomats.
Earlier, the Taliban government's representative in Pakistan also showed similar behaviour in front of the Pakistani national anthem at an official ceremony. Mohibullah Shakir, the Taliban's consul general in Peshawar, was invited to a conference on Tuesday at the invitation of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur. According to diplomatic custom, diplomats must stand when the host country's national anthem is played, but he and his companion were the only ones who did not.
Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mumtaz Zahra Baloch strongly condemned the Taliban diplomat's action, saying, "We will convey our strong protest to Afghan authorities in Islamabad and Kabul."
