Drug traffickers have regularly taken hostages in eastern Iran, where a heavy police and security presence has since been deployed to stop the flow of narcotics headed to markets in the Gulf, Europe and central Asia. The Taliban on Monday condemned what they said was an Iranian delegation's visit to an anti-Taliban opposition stronghold in northern Afghanistan. Like most of the world, Iran does not recognise the Taliban as the legitimate government of its neighbour. Kabul-Tehran relations plummeted this month following a bomb blast in the western Afghan city of Herat in which 10 people, including a dissident Iranian Sunni Muslim cleric. Iran calls for emergency meeting of OIC .
Supreme leader condemns reprisals on Afghanistan .
Khatami says UN should lead fight against terrorism . Taliban envoy . Iran says worried about influx of Afghan refugees . Iran cautions Britain over hasty US reaction to terrorist attacks . Afghan population movements high as fear builds of US strikes, UN warns .