Iran says forces responded ‘decisively’ after Taliban fired at police station, doesn’t report casualties; Tehran urges Kabul to uphold 1973 water rights deal
TEHRAN, Iran — Clashes broke out Saturday between Iranian and Taliban forces at the border between the two countries, Iranian police said without reporting casualties, amid a water dispute between the two neighbors.
“Around 10 a.m. today, Taliban forces started shooting with all kinds of weapons at an Iranian police station from the Afghanistan side,” state news agency IRNA quoted the deputy head of the police force, Qassem Rezaee, as saying.
The official did not say if there were any casualties, while Tasnim news agency reported that “light and semi-light weapons and artillery were used in the clashes.”
Rezaee added that the Iranian forces responded “decisively” to the shooting which happened in Sistan-Baluchistan province.
He added that Iran’s police chief has ordered border guards to “bravely and resolutely defend the borders and not allow anyone to trespass or approach the borders.”
