Iran offers to give Afghan women college education amid Taliban ban on Afghanistan

Dec. 24 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Iranian authorities have shown this Saturday their willingness to give university education to Afghan women after the Taliban announced the suspension of classes for female students in these centers in Afghanistan, unleashing a new wave of criticism from the international community.

Rasul Mousavi, director of the Department for Western Asia of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, has indicated in his account on the social network Twitter that Tehran is willing to “solve the problems of women’s education” in Afghanistan, including options “through Internet”.

Thus, he has detailed that he has transferred the proposal to the representative of the Taliban in Tehran, Abdulqayum Soleimani, after Iran was critical of the decision of the fundamentalist group and asked that the decision be revoked to allow the restart of classes for women in universities. from Afghanistan.

During the day this Saturday, the Taliban have used water cannons to suppress a protest in the Afghan city of Herat against the prohibition of access to university education for women, in the midst of a battery of restrictive measures that have limited the public role of the Afghans