{"id":39966,"date":"2017-08-10T08:02:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T08:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=39966"},"modified":"2017-08-10T08:02:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T08:02:15","slug":"iran-dismisses-tajik-civil-war-claims-as-attempt-to-damage-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/iran-dismisses-tajik-civil-war-claims-as-attempt-to-damage-ties.html","title":{"rendered":"Iran dismisses Tajik civil war claims as attempt to damage ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Iran dismisses Tajik civil war claims as attempt to damage ties<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Iran dismisses Tajik civil war claims as attempt to damage ties:- Iran denied on Thursday accusations of involvement in Tajikistan&#8217;s civil war in the 1990s, labeling the claims an attempt to damage bilateral ties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">In a documentary aired by state television on Wednesday, three Tajiks said that, following training in Iran, they had killed politicians and other prominent figures inside Tajikistan during the 1992-97 war and attacked a Russian military base there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The Iranian embassy in Tajikistan said the accusations were unfounded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;The airing of such biased films&#8230; shows that certain circles do not want to see&#8230; stronger friendship between the two countries,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Tehran acted as one of the mediators in talks to end the war, which pitted government forces against an Islamist-led armed opposition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">But ties between the two nations, both Persian-speaking and predominantly Muslim, have been strained since a leader of a banned Tajik Islamist party attended a conference in Tehran in December 2015, which angered the government in Dushanbe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">President Imomali Rakhmon&#8217;s government banned the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) and jailed some of its leaders and activists, after accusing it of being behind a coup attempt in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">IRPT leader Muhiddin Kabiri attended the Tehran conference after fleeing Tajikistan and being put on a wanted list by Dushanbe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-tajikistan-iran-idUSKBN1AQ0OC<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/iran-dismisses-tajik-civil-war-claims-as-attempt-to-damage-ties.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran dismisses Tajik civil war claims as attempt to damage ties Iran dismisses Tajik civil war claims as attempt to damage ties:- Iran denied on Thursday accusations of involvement in Tajikistan&#8217;s civil war in the 1990s, labeling the claims an attempt to damage bilateral ties. 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