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Iran exchanges heavy gunfire with Taliban on Afghan border, escalating
tensions over water rights


https://abcnews.go.com/International...der-afghanistan-sound-99647995

The Taliban and Iran have exchanged heavy gunfire on the Islamic Republic’s
border with Afghanistan

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- 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
countries amid a dispute over water rights.

Iran's state-run IRNA news agency quoted the country's deputy police chief,
Gen. Qassem Rezaei, accusing the Taliban of opening fire first Saturday
morning on the border of Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan province and the
Afghan province of Nimroz. IRNA said Iran inflicted “heavy casualties and
serious damage."

From the Taliban's view, Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul Nafi Takor
accused Iran of shooting first. Takor said the firefight killed two people,
one from each country, and wounded others. He described the situation as now
being under control.

IRNA, quoting Iranian police, said two border guards had been killed.
However, that number may be higher. The semiofficial, English-language
newspaper Tehran Times said the fighting killed three Iranian border guards.
IRNA said the Milak border crossing with Afghanistan, a major trade route,
was closed until further notice over the gunfight.

“The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan considers dialogue to be a reasonable
way for any problem,” Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman Enayatullah
Khawarazmi said in a statement. “Making excuses for war and negative actions
is not in the interest of any of the parties.”

The advocacy group HalVash, which reports on issues affecting the Baluch
people in the predominately Sunni province of Sistan and Baluchestan, quoted
residents in the area saying the fighting took place near the Kang district
of Nimroz. It said some people in the area had fled the violence.

Videos posted online, purportedly from the area, included the crackle of
machine gun fire in the distance. HalVash later posted an image of what
appeared to be the remains of a mortar round, saying that “heavy weapons and
mortars are being used.”

Later videos from HalVash purported to show Iranian forces firing a mortar,
as well as Taliban troops firing American-made machine guns at an Iranian
border post. Other Taliban fighters drove armored vehicles likely left behind
by NATO forces.

Iran vowed not let the Taliban attack stand.

“The border forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran will decisively respond
to any border trespassing and aggression, and the current authorities of
Afghanistan must be held accountable for their unmeasured and contrary
actions to international principles," IRNA quoted Iran's police chief, Gen.
Ahmadreza Radan, as saying.

The clash comes as Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi earlier this month warned
the Taliban not to violate Iran's water rights to the Helmand River. Raisi's
remarks represented some of the strongest yet over the long-running concerns
about water in Iran.

Drought has been a problem in Iran for some 30 years, but has worsened over
the past decade, according to the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization.
The Iran Meteorological Organization says that an estimated 97% of the
country now faces some level of drought.

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 most repressive in the world for
women and girls, depriving them of virtually all their basic rights,
according to the U.N. Hunger remains endemic.

While not directly accepting the Taliban government, Iran has maintained
relations with Afghanistan's new rulers. Tehran also has called on the
Taliban to allow women and girls to go to school.

Earlier on Saturday, the Taliban's Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi
met with an Iranian envoy to Afghanistan to discuss the Helmand River water
rights, according to tweets from Afghan Foreign Ministry official Zia Ahmad.
IRNA acknowledged the meeting, saying “that issues between the two countries
will be better resolved through dialogue.”

But tensions have otherwise been rising. Another video posted online in
recent days purportedly showed a standoff with Iranian forces and the Taliban
as Iranian construction workers tried to reinforce the border between the two
countries.

In recent days, pro-Taliban accounts online also have been sharing a video
with a song calling on the acting defense minister, Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob,
to stand up to Iran. Mullah Yaqoob is the son of Mullah Mohammad Omar, the
Taliban’s late founder and first supreme leader.

“We are a government, we have power,” the song goes. “Our leader Mullah
Yaqoob will stand against Iran or we are not the republic’s government. We
are not slaves, our leader Mullah Yaqoob will stand against Iran.”

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Associated Press writers Rahim Faiez in Islamabad and Amir Vahdat in Tehran,
Iran, contributed to this report.

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大意

塔利班 最近在邊界與鄰國伊朗

因為用水問題在邊界出現交火情況

目前造成一死兩傷

題外話

不只塔利班 法國部分地區 也出現了水源糾紛問題

ㄎㄎ

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