Taliban & Raisi In War Of Words | Will Helmand River Water Swamp Iran-Afghan Ties?

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..
President Ebrahim Raisi said his government is determined to defend Iran’s water rights.
“We will not allow the rights of our people to be violated,” he said and warned the Taliban to take his words seriously, emphasizing the importance of Helmand River, which flows from Afghanistan into Iran .
Raisi spoke in a Pakistani border town on Thursday, during his first official visit to the neighboring country in 10 years, to inaugurate the first of six markets along the Iran-Pakistan border.
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0:00 INTRODUCTION
2:40 THE ROW OVER HELMAND WATERS
4:12 GIVE ‘OIL FOR WATER’
4:41 HOW HAS TALIBAN REACTED?
5:16 IRAN-AFGHAN TIES IN TROUBLED WATERS

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