Iran temporarily shuts consulate general in Afghanistan's Mazar-i-Sharif as violence escalates
Aug 12, 2021
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 12 : Iran on Thursday announced that it was temporarily closing its Consulate General in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of Afghanistan's Balkh province and moving it to Kabul amid the escalating violence between government forces and insurgent Taliban, which has wrested control of 10 provincial capitals in the war-torn country.