– Acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban government Amir Khan Muttaqi has said that the government of the country will endeavor to supply Iran’s water share of Hirmand River.
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 ...
Irans foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh says the country will pursue its rights to water supply from the Hirmand River through legal channels amid a longstanding water dispute with neighboring Afghanistan.
Speaking to IRNA on the sidelines of his visit on Saturday to the Dogharoun border crossing, which connects Afghanistan's Herat with ...
Iran and Afghanistan have launched a month-long surveying operation in their joint border region to work out the topographic features of the Helmand River as they seek to implement the terms of an old river-sharing agreement.
A senior official from Irans Energy Ministry said on Tuesday that a 20-member delegation from Afghanistan was in the eastern ...
IRNA Iran's First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri on Friday called for plans to control the floods that may come from Afghanistan.
In a telephone conversation with governor general of Sistan-Baluchestan province late on Friday, he referred to flash floods in the neighboring country and flowing water from it to the province, and called for undertaking ...
MNA - Afghan Deputy Minister of Water Khan Mohammad Takal says his country is committed to fulfilling its obligations over sharing the water from the Hirmand (also known as Helmand) River and its tributary to Iran.
Iran and Afghanistan held the 19th round of Joint Committee of Commissars of Hirmand water in Tehran from Jan. 5-8. The negotiations ...
IRNA Senior Iranian and Afghan officials on Sunday discussed issues of mutual interest, including energy and water cooperation.
Iran's Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian in a meeting with Afghanistan's Deputy Minister of Energy and Water Khan Mohammad Takal called for mutual cooperation between the two states for full implementation of 1973 Helmand/Hirmand ...
IRNA Shooting in Hirmand, Sistan-Baluchestan Province injured two people, governor of Hirmand Mohammad Ali Piri said.
Speaking to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) on Tuesday, Piri said the shooting happened when police officers were transferring some people to Hirmand court.
Shooting was due to clashes between two tribes, he said.
The ...
Ariana News - Following comments by the Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Afghanistan Helmand River, the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affaris (MoFA) said border waters dispute with Iran will be solved without any political pressures.
Jawad Zarif has recently declared that Iran can use different leverages, but Tehrans policy is to cooperate ...
MNA Afghan officials said that Iran and Afghanistan have prior agreements on the water of Helmand River and there exists no arguments on this issue between the two countries.
Deputy Afghan Minister of Foreign Affairs for Management and Resources Nasir Ahamad Andisha said in a TV program that Tehran and Kabul have signed an agreement on their water ...
Financial Tribune- Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said by building dams on Hirmand River, the eastern neighbor Afghanistan has significantly reduced the volume of water entering Iranian territories in Sistan-Baluchestan Province.
Over the past year, Afghanistan has blocked the flow of Hirmand water into the country, such that the volume has decreased ...
Iranian Diplomacy| Vahid Zohouri Hosseini: Afghanistan is a mountainous, landlocked country. Thus, rivers are the countrys sole water resources, i.e. its lifeline. On the other hand, more than three decades of war, chaos, and absence of a strong government has made impossible fundamental infrastructural projects including water efficiency, depriving ...
IFP- Sources in the Iranian Energy Ministry said the Afghan government has failed to meet its commitments under the 1973 treaty with Iran.
During the water year 1395-1396 (2016-2017), Iran has not received the amount of water from the border river stipulated in the treaty, sources said.
According to a treaty that was concluded in 1973, Afghanistan ...
Sistan-Baluchestan province in southeast Iran, bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan, has been affected by severe droughts in the past 11 years.
Zistboom:Sistan-Baluchestan province in southeast Iran, bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan, has been affected by severe droughts in the past 11 years.
Hirmand or Helmand River on the borders of Iran and Afghanistan ...