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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.
Afghanistan has an embassy in Tehran and consulates-general in Mashad and Zahedan. Iran has an embassy in Kabul and consulates-general in Herat, Kandahar and Mazar-i-Sharif. Iraq: 20 December 1932: Both countries established diplomatic relations on 20 December 1932. [24] Afghanistan has an embassy in Baghdad. Iraq has an embassy in Kabul. Israel
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Water conflict typically refers to violence or disputes associated with access to, or control of, water resources, or the use of water or water systems as weapons or casualties of conflicts. The term water war is colloquially used in media for some disputes over water, and often is more limited to describing a conflict between countries, states ...
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.