{"id":885239,"date":"2026-01-15T08:23:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/anti-taliban-figure-ikramuddin-saree-killed-in-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T08:23:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:23:57","slug":"anti-taliban-figure-ikramuddin-saree-killed-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/anti-taliban-figure-ikramuddin-saree-killed-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Taliban Figure Ikramuddin Saree Killed In Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-content\">\n<div>\n<p>Ikramuddin Saree, a former police commander in Afghanistan&#8217;s Takhar and Baghlan provinces under the pre-Taliban republic, was shot dead on the evening of December 24 outside his office in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to him and the anti-Taliban National Resistance Front of Afghanistan confirmed the killing, saying Saree and a companion died while another was wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Maisam Nazary, a spokesman for the opposition group, accused the Taliban of orchestrating the assassination. The Taliban has not commented. Former republic officials and anti-Taliban groups have condemned the attack, urging Iran to investigate the incident and identify the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran has not commented on the killing.<\/p>\n<p>Saree is the second anti-Taliban figure killed in Iran in recent months. <\/p>\n<p>In September, Maruf Gholami, a commander close to Ismail Khan and living in Mashhad, was gunned down by armed men. Khan, a former warlord and governor of Herat Province who fled to Iran after the Taliban takeover, demanded justice from Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Saree served as Baghlan police chief from 2017 to 2019 and then Takhar chief under then-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. He fled to Iran after the 2021 Taliban takeover, advocating that former Afghan military personnel seeking residency should avoid deportation.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of ex-Afghan soldiers and police have sought refuge in Iran since 2021, amid fears of Taliban reprisals despite the group&#8217;s amnesty claims. The Taliban denies any cross-border operations.\u200b<\/p>\n<p>Iran has not formally recognized the Taliban government since it returned to power. However, Tehran maintains diplomatic, security, and economic relations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p> Erasmo Michaud<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/afghanistan-ikramuddin-sartee-killed-iran-taliban\/33632740.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ikramuddin Saree, a former police commander in Afghanistan&#8217;s Takhar and Baghlan provinces under the pre-Taliban republic, was shot dead on the evening of December 24 outside his office in Tehran. Sources close to him and the anti-Taliban National Resistance Front of Afghanistan confirmed the killing, saying Saree and a companion died while another was wounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":885240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147459,22233],"tags":[147458,9198],"class_list":{"0":"post-885239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anti-taliban","8":"category-figure","9":"tag-anti-taliban","10":"tag-figure"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}