Clashes on the Iran-Afghanistan border

Clashes broke out in the border area between Iranian border guards and Taliban forces.

According to reports from Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency, based on its sources in the region, clashes broke out between Taliban border forces and Iranian border guards near the Sasuli outpost in the Hirmand district of Iran’s Sistan province. -Baluchestan.

Iranian state television, on the other hand, announced that the conflict, the cause of which is still unclear, has ended and that military officials from the two sides at the border are in a meeting to assess the cause of the conflict. In the published images, intense confrontations are heard and presumably belong to the moment of the conflict on the border.

TWO COUNTRIES SUFFER WATER CRISIS

Iranian officials and the Taliban have yet to make any official statement on the conflict.
There has been tension between Iran and the Taliban over the exchange of water on the Hilmend River in recent days.

While the Taliban administration argues that due to the drought in the region, the amount of water in the Keceki Dam and Kemal Han rivers in the Hilmend River has decreased and therefore the water does not reach Iran, Iran claims that a technical delegation should visit the dams and confirm this situation.

After the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, Pakistani and Iranian border forces clashed with Taliban forces from time to time. (AA)