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Taliban requested Iran resumes fuel exports to Afghanistan after US withdrawal

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By SRI NewsDesk Published August 24, 2021
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KABUL: Sanctioned Iran resumes fuel export to Afghanistan a few days ago due to a request from the Taliban, who feels empowered by the US withdrawal to buy fuel openly.

Iran sits on the world’s fourth-largest oil reserves, but the latest round of US sanctions imposed by former US President Donald Trump in 2018, has significantly reduced Iranian oil exports.

Iran has nevertheless managed some trade, notably by trucking fuel to neighbors such as Afghanistan, and the US troop withdrawal has made leaders of both Iran and Afghanistan less nervous about dealing more openly, Hosseini said.

The price of gasoline in Afghanistan reached $900 per tonne as many Afghans drove out of cities, fearing reprisals and a return to a harsh version of Islamic law the Taliban imposed when in power two decades ago. To counter the price spike, the new Taliban asked Iran to keep the borders open for traders.

“The Taliban sent messages to Iran saying, ‘you can continue the exports of petroleum products,” Hamid Hosseini, board member and spokesperson of Iran’s Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters’ Union, in Tehran, said.

The Taliban sent messages to Iranian traders and to an Iranian chamber of commerce, which has close links to the government.

As a result, the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA), which is a part of the government, lifted a ban on fuel exports to Afghanistan, which had been in place since Aug 6 because of Iran’s concerns about the safety of trading in the country.

Those concerns have been eased by the Taliban’s attitude, Hosseini said.

He also cited the Taliban’s decision to cut tariffs on imports of fuel from Iran and other neighboring countries. The document specified a 70pc discount on tariffs on imports of gasoline, diesel, and LPG from the neighboring countries to Afghanistan.

The main Iranian exports to Afghanistan are gasoline and gasoil. Iran exported about 400,000 tonnes of fuel to its neighbor from May 2020 to May 2021, according to a report published by PetroView, an Iranian oil and gas research and consultancy platform. Iranian fuel flows have been vital to Afghanistan in the last few years, according to traders and an Afghan government report.

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