11.   Just a day after Northern Alliance forces swept into Kabul, a small group of Iranian diplomats turned up at their abandoned embassy compound in downtown Kabul.

12.   Last year, Bonn maintained a studious silence about the expulsion of two Iranian diplomats, even after word of their departure had been published in the American press.

13.   Part of the evidence gathered against Sayegh was the contacts he apparently had with Iranian diplomats in Canada, a senior administration official said on Monday.

14.   Several Iranian witnesses reportedly told the judge that the Iranian diplomat had falsified passports and even given orders to terrorists who carried out the attacks.

15.   Some reports have said the Iranian diplomats might have been killed when the Taliban seized the Iranian consulate in the city.

16.   That explains why Iranian diplomats were stationed in a militia-held provincial town that fell to Taliban forces last month.

17.   The main flashpoint in the crisis has been the killing in August of at least eight Iranian diplomats based in Afghanistan.

18.   The report identified the Iranian diplomats as Ahmad Allameh Falsafi, Mahvash Monsef Gholamreza, Akbar Parvaresch and Abbas Zarrabi Krorasani.

19.   The United Nations also wants to investigate how a number of Iranian diplomats and journalists were killed in Taliban military operations this year.

20.   Tuesday night, the Security Council condemned the killing of the Iranian diplomats and said that the act had seriously increased tension in the region.