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According to historian Mustafa Hamid, the Kamal Khan dam was designed to complicate relations between Iran and Afghanistan, and did not benefit Afghanistan. [12] Water sharing arrangements with Iran have been ongoing since the Taliban came to power. [13] On 18 May 2023, Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi warned the Taliban not to violate Iran's ...
The Taliban seized Afghanistan in August 2021 as U.S. and NATO troops were in the final weeks of their pullout from the country after 20 years of war. In the time since, Afghanistan has become the ...
Iran and Afghanistan are going head to head over control of the supply of a crucial resource that’s shrinking by the day: water.
Iran’s president warned Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on Thursday not to violate water rights of the Iranian people over their shared Helmand River, the state-run IRNA news agency reported..
Relations were negatively affected by the 1978 Saur Revolution and 1979 Iranian Revolution and issues related to the Afghan conflict (i.e. PDPA, Mujahideen, Afghan refugees, and the Taliban), as well as Iran's water dispute and the growing influence of the United States in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. [1]
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 ...
The Qosh Tepa Canal (Pashto: د قوشتپې کنال; Persian: کانال قوش تپه; Uzbek: Qoʻshtepa kanali) is a canal being built in northern Afghanistan to divert water from the Amu Darya. [1] The main canal is expected to be 285 km long and the overall initiative seeks to convert 550,000 hectares of desert into farmland. [2]
Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, the top U.S. commander for the Middle East made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan this week. “Iran has always sort of dabbled a little bit in Afghanistan, but they ...