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Relations between Iran, a primarily Shiite country, and the Taliban, dominated by Sunni fundamentalists, have historically been highly volatile. [15] During the Taliban's rule of Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001, 10 Iranian diplomats and an Iranian journalist from the consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif were executed, in an incident condemned by the Taliban.
Under an accord signed between the Imperial State of Iran and the Kingdom of Afghanistan in 1972 or 1973, [19] Afghanistan agreed to release water at a rate of at least 820 cu ft/s (23 m 3 /s). [ 20 ] [ 21 ] In 1998, Afghanistan briefly stopped the flow of water to Iran, using a canal to divert water of Helmand River southward into the Godzareh ...
Iran–PJAK Conflict (2004–present) Iran Turkey: PJAK: Ongoing: PJAK withdraws from Iranian territory Afghanistan–Iran border skirmishes (2007–2023) 2009 Afghanistan–Iran clash; 2021 Afghanistan–Iran clashes; 2023 Afghanistan–Iran clash; part of Afghan conflict Iran Afghanistan: Stalemate: Status quo ante bellum: Syrian Civil War ...
Iran and Afghanistan are going head to head over control of the supply of a crucial resource that’s shrinking by the day: water. Water wars: Afghanistan and Iran’s deadly border flare-up ...
Under an accord signed between Iran and Afghanistan in 1972, Afghanistan is obliged to release water at a rate of at least 910 cubic feet per second (26 m 3 /s). The Helmand River water agreement was signed in 1972 between Mohammad Musa Shafiq and Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, [5] the then prime ministers of the country and Iran.
c. 1350 BC: Migration of waves of Iranian tribes begin from the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex westwards to the Iranian plateau, western Afghanistan and western Iran. According to the Avesta ( Vendidad 1.1-21), they are compelled to leave their homeland Airyana Vaēǰah because Aŋra Mainyu so altered the climate that the winter ...
The Taliban and Iran exchanged heavy gunfire Saturday on the Islamic Republic's border with Afghanistan, killing and wounding troops while sharply escalating rising tensions between the two ...
Aside from a source of internal conflict within nations, water has caused external tension between sovereign states. While Egypt consumes 99% of the Nile’s water supply, [3] little water originates within Egypt’s sovereign borders. High water demands of a lower riparian have often fueled regional conflict. Such is the case in North Africa.