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A firefight broke out at the border in Afghanistan after rising political tensions between Iran and the Taliban. Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday that border officials responded decisively to a Taliban attack from Nimrus province. The militant Islamist Taliban did not comment on the incident. According to IRNA, two border guards were killed and two civilians injured in the clash.

Since the Islamists came to power in the summer of 2021, there have been repeated incidents on the borders of neighboring countries. In the past, both parties usually talked about misunderstandings; There is no fundamental dispute over the course of the 921-kilometer border.

Recently, however, a dispute broke out over the waters of the border river Helmand. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi threatened the Taliban government and urged Kabul to abide by a decades-old pact on water use that guarantees Iran a minimum annual water supply. The river, which is more than 1,000 kilometers long, is being dammed on the Afghan side in the Helmand province of the same name to generate electricity and irrigate agriculture.

The Taliban said drought and climate change make it impossible for authorities to get enough water to flow to the neighboring country. Just days later, Iran’s IRNA news agency released satellite photos, contradicting the group. Researchers have been warning for years about an increase in drought in the region, which is particularly hard hit by the effects of climate change. (sda/dpa)