A yet-to-be-identified attacker stabbed about 10 people to death in Kerman province in southern Iran due to ‘personal differences’, before being arrested by police, state media reported Tuesday.
Africa Today News, New York gathered that on Sunday, ‘an Afghan national killed ten people due to personal differences in Rafsanjan,’ Hossein Rezai, acting governor of the city’.
He ‘was arrested by the police as he attempted to leave the province’ in the evening, Rezai added.
Six Afghans and four Iranians were killed in the attack in a rural area, he confirmed.
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He also disclosed that one person was also injured.
State broadcaster IRIB disclosed that the suspect was reported as ‘mentally unstable’ and addicted to drugs.
Iran has hosted millions of Afghan refugees for decades, but fresh waves have flooded through the shared 900-kilometre (550-mile) border between the countries since the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan last year.
In a related development, Iran had last Wednesday announced that it would be dispatching a delegation to Vienna to resume some of the talks to revive some of the frayed 2015 agreement on its nuclear programme that has been halted since March.
‘As part of the policy of lifting cruel sanctions against our country, Iran’s negotiating team led by Ali Bagheri, the Islamic republic’s chief negotiator, will leave for Vienna in a few hours,’ foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said in a statement.
Negotiations in Vienna had already began in April 2021 to restore the deal, but have stalled for the past five months amid differences between Tehran and Washington on several issues. The two sides have negotiated indirectly through the European Union coordinator in a bid to bring the US back into the deal and to lift sanctions on Iran, on the basis that Tehran would return to its nuclear commitments.
Qatar hosted indirect talks at the end of June between the United States and Iran in a bid to get the Vienna process back on track, but those discussions broke up after two days without any breakthrough.