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Iran confirms Taliban diplomats stationed in Tehran Embassy  

Tehran said the move to allow Taliban-appointed diplomats was not a step toward recognizing the current establishment in neighboring Afghanistan.  
Taliban members of the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.

Iran has confirmed allowing Taliban diplomats at Afghanistan's Embassy in Tehran, insisting, however, that the decision is not meant to pave the way for official recognition of the Taliban as a government.  

"We will not hand over the embassy to a government that we have not recognized," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh at a Tehran presser April 26.  

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