Noor Jalal Jalali, the Taliban’s minister of public health, travelled to Iran on Monday morning to pursue health cooperation between the two countries, the Iranian embassy in Kabul said.
In a brief statement posted on X, the embassy said the purpose of Jalali’s visit is to expand health-related collaboration. No further details about the visit have been released.
In March, the Taliban’s Ministry of Public Health said in a press release that Alireza Bikdeli, Iran’s ambassador in Kabul, had announced that Iran would soon resume construction of two hospitals in Kabul and Bamiyan.
Jalali has previously criticised the forced deportation of Afghan refugees from Iran.
The Taliban health minister has described the forced deportation of Afghan migrants from both Pakistan and Iran as a sign of those countries’ fear of Afghanistan’s progress. He said Afghan migrants face harassment, mistreatment and confiscation of their property in both countries.
