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Tehran, Nov 14, IRNA -- Iran on Tuesday night felicitated Afghans on their victory against the hardline Taliban, hailing it "owed to the great movement of the alien-fighting people and the resistance of military commanders, including martyr Ahmad Shah Masood" who was assassinated in September.
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"The Islamic Republic of Iran...hopes the victory will serve to put an end to armed disputes in Afghanistan and pave the way for the formation of the future Afghan government which is based on the people's demands, participated by all ethnic groups and supervised by the United Nations," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran hopes that the United Front forces will exert their best efforts for the establishment of peace and stability, respect of the citizens' rights, practice of the Islamic leniency, announcement of a general amnesty and observation of all international laws before the transitional Afghan government is formed," it added.
Iran also invited world countries, the UN and international communities to send in their humanitarian aid to Afghanistan and participate in the reconstruction of the war-ravaged country.
Tehran is fiercely opposed to the ultra-orthodox Taliban regime which killed nine Iranian diplomats and an IRNA reporter after they captured Mazar-i-Sharif in 1998.
The Islamic Republic has been sheltering over two million Afghan refugees in the past two decades since the internal strife started in that country.
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