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Tehran, Feb 26, IRNA -- Leader of Afghan Hizb-i-Islami, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, left Iran for an unknown destination, an informed official told IRNA on Tuesday.
Hekmatyar had already been urged to leave Iran, the official said.
Hekmatyar had been living in Iran in the past five year. He had made statements in support of the Taliban while the popular uprising in Afghanistan forced the Taliban to withdraw from the country.
Iran did not recognize the Taliban since it took power in Afghanistan in 1996.
IRNA reporter and eight diplomats at Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif were massacred in cold blood by Taliban in 1998.
Hekmatyar served as former prime minister of Afghanistan after withdrawal of the former Soviet troops, but he laid a siege to Kabul and launched mortar attacks on Kabul when a dispute arose between him and other ethnic leaders.
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