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      Burka-clad women walked in and out of a clinic in Herat while male relatives waited outside. Founded using Iranian money, the Sabz-e-Parsyan clinic provides free health care to women and children in Herat. Most of the doctors trained in Iran.

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      In the Jubrayl neighborhood in Herat, Afghanistan, Iranian aid organizations have built mosques and madrassas and distributed money for housing and wedding expenses to the locals. Iran is funding aid projects and expanding intelligence networks across Afghanistan, moving to fill the void to be left by the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, according to U.S. and Afghan officials.

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      The Iranians also paid for the wedding of Dunya and Saytaki Husseini, providing $400 and traditional clothes for the ceremony. Here, the couple sat with their young daughter in their living room in Jubrayl.

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      A young man rode his bike past trucks on their way to the customs office on a road coming from the Iranian border. The main road between Islam Qala, a little town at the border with Iran, and Herat, was built largely with Iranian funds.

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      Street children crowded around near a customs office outside Herat, waiting for trucks coming from Iran. They beg, polish shoes or sell street food to the truck drivers.

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      A woman wearing a chador walked near the UNHCR office.

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