Iran closes the Milak border crossing with Afghanistan, a major trade route, until further notice, following an exchange of heavy gunfire between Iranian border guards and Taliban forces. Ayoub Kord, the director of the Department of Roads and Transport in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, said on Saturday that economic exchanges through ...

Clashes have occurred between Iranian border guards and Afghanistans Taliban forces on the joint border between the two countries, media reports said. On Saturday, footage emerged online of exchanges of fire between Iranian border guards and Taliban forces on the border of Irans Sistan and Baluchestan Province and the Afghan Province of ...

Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has stated Tehran does not recognize the incumbent ruling body in Afghanistan, urging the Taliban to form an inclusive government. Amirabdollahian made the remarks on Thursday during a meeting between Foreign Ministries officials and Seyyed Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of Imam Khomeini, at the ...

Newly-released satellite images show a considerable amount of water at the two controversial dams built by Afghanistan on the Helmand River shared with Iran, contrary to the Talibans claims of water shortages there. The images, published by IRNA on Tuesday, were captured by Irans domestically-developed Khayyam Satellite. The images ...

The Iranian presidents special envoy for Afghanistan says the interim Taliban rulers have one month to provide Iran access to its share of water from the Helmand River, and that they will be responsible for the consequences if they fail to do so. In an interview with the state TV, Hassan Kazemi Qomi referred to the Talibans claim of water shortages,...

The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the contradictory and incorrect statement issued by Afghanistan's governing body regarding Helmand water right saying that the Iran-Afghanistan treaty clearly and without any ambiguity has determined Irans water right. In its statement which was issued on Friday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry ...

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi has warned the rulers in Afghanistan to not withhold the water rights of the Iranian people in the southeast country from Helmand, stressing the government is determined to defend the nations rights wherever it is. Speaking on the sidelines of the inauguration ceremony of a number of water and electricity projects in ...

Iran;s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has underlined that Irans water rights from the Helmand River are a serious matter and would affect ties with the Taliban government. In a phone conversation with Talibans foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Wednesday, Amirabdollahian said the Taliban governments verbal commitment to providing Irans ...

The Iranian foreign minister is in Sistan and Baluchistan province in the southeast of the country to follow up on Irans water rights from the Hirmand River, which has been a source of tension with neighboring Afghanistan. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan'anisaid on Wednesday that the minister will have a meeting with provincial officials ...

Irans energy minister says the country is to make some important decisions with regard to securing its water rights from the Helmand river in Afghanistan. Ali Akbar Mehrabian said that the decisions will be finalized in a Monday meeting where key government departments responsible for water rights issue will be represented. Some important decisions ...

Iranian Foreign Ministery said that the government of Afghanistan is committed to Irans water rights from the Helmand River. Speaking on Wed. in response to a question regarding the remarks raised with relation to the inauguration of Kamal Khan Dam in Afghanistan, Saeed Khatibzadeh said that Helmand River has a defined legal regime and ...

Press TV- At least five people have been killed and over 2 dozen wounded when a car bomb exploded at a police headquarters in Afghanistans southern Helmand Province. The blast took place in Lashkargah, Helmands provincial capital, on Wednesday, with the Taliban militant group claiming the responsibility for the bombing. A bomber detonated ...

IRNA The Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai once more stressed that Afghanistan is committed to the internationally accepted Helmand-River Water Treaty with Iran. Water is part of Afghanistan national resources and we handle it, said Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai in a press conference on Tuesday. Water, after Afghanistans geography, is a priority ...

Tasnim Irans Foreign Ministry condemned a terrorist attack in the southern Afghan province of Helmand in which dozens of people have been killed in a car bomb blast. Expressing condolences to the Afghan government and nation and families of the victims, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said Iran will stand by Afghanistan in the fight against ...

Press TV- The Pentagon will deploy a new task force of approximately 300 US Marines to Afghanistans restive Helmand province, marking the return to a region where hundreds of troops were killed in fierce combat. The forces with a unit called Task Force Southwest will deploy this spring to advise the Afghan army and police, senior Marine officers ...

Tehran, Oct 26, IRNA One of our main demands in our negotiations with Afghanistan is Iran's right to the Helmand water, Says Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Following the 1857 separation of Afghanistan from mainland Iran, the then Afghan government refused to allow the Iranian side to enjoy its water right from the Helmand border river. Helmand ...