After receiving the official request from the Afghan Red Crescent, the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) took action with search and rescue teams, rapid response, rescue vehicles and related equipment, and relief and humanitarian items for accommodation and emergency deeding, according to CEO of Khorasan Red Crescent Society of the Khorasan Razavi Province Mohsen Zakarian.

"The Red Crescent Society of this province prepared 21 rescue forces, 11 operational rescue vehicles, 2 sniffer dogs, and relief items related to accommodation and feeding 500 families and is sending them," Zakerian added.

The CEO of Khorasan Razavi Red Crescent Society said that those relief aid and rescue teams are sent to Afghanistan in the form of two convoys.

In the meantime, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, the ambassador of Iran to Afghanistan and special representative of the Iranian president to neighboring country's affairs, said that coordination of all-round aid to the earthquake victims of Herat continues, adding, "I am in contact with my colleagues to activate the regional contact committee."

After meeting with Maulvi Salim Haqqani, the head of Kabul Zone of Afghanistan's Ministry of Natural Disasters, in order to coordinate all-round aid to Herat earthquake victims, he wrote on social networking websites that "today's meeting at the embassy was at the request of Afghanistan's Ministry of Natural Disasters in response to my tweet yesterday."

More than 2,000 people were killed in earthquakes in Afghanistan and more than 9,000 injured, the Taliban administration said on Sunday, in the deadliest tremors to rock the quake-prone mountainous country in years, media reported on Sunday.