After the Taliban announced that the work of \u201cPashdan Dam\u201d in Herat has been completed up to 80 percent and will soon be put into operation, it faced a wave of criticism in the Islamic Republic of Iran.<\/p>\n
Eisa Bozorgzadeh, the spokesperson of Iran\u2019s water industry, said that the construction of this dam will severely affect the drinking water of several million Iranians living in the city of Mashhad and called for an adjustment in the Taliban\u2019s decision.\u00a0Meanwhile, Ismail Baqaei, the spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, has requested the cooperation of the Taliban government to remove the obstacles to the entry of water from Afghanistan to Iran.\u00a0He reminded that Iran’s rights and bilateral treaties between the two countries should be considered in the exploitation of water resources.<\/p>\n
The Taliban recently completed the construction of the \u201cPashdan Dam\u201d in Herat, and earlier, Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesperson of the Taliban government, published a video of the gathering of citizens around this dam on his account in the X.\u00a0The spokesperson of Iran’s Foreign Ministry has protested the withdrawal of water from Herat’s \u201cPashdan Dam\u201d and said “exploitation of water resources and water basins cannot be done without respecting Iran’s rights in accordance with bilateral treaties or customary principles and rules, as well as the important principle of good neighborliness as well as environmental considerations.”<\/p>\n
Esmail Baqaei said that Iran’s Foreign Ministry, in contact with the ruling authorities in Afghanistan, expressed its \u201cstrong objection and concern to the disproportionate limitation of water entering Iran or diverting the natural course of rivers\u201d.<\/p>\n
The authorities of the Taliban government have not reacted on the water issue so far.<\/strong><\/p>\n Earlier, Bozorgzadeh also called the water withdrawal from Herat’s Pashdan Dam “one-sided exploitation” of the Hariroud River, which, according to him, “caused a violation of customary rights.”<\/p>\n He added that \u201cthe effects of this unilateral action by the Afghan side will not only affect the supply of drinking water and health of several million people, but also lead to widespread damage to the downstream environment.”<\/p>\n Pashdan dam, which is located in Karkh district of Herat, is one of the main sources of irrigation for the green areas of Herat city and the green belt of this province, and its construction started in 2010.<\/p>\n It is said that Pashdan Dam has the capacity to irrigate about 18 thousand hectares of land and produce two megawatts of electricity.<\/p>\n In the past, Iran has expressed concern about the number of dams and efforts to build more dams in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n Hirmand River is a potential point of conflict between Iran and Afghanistan\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The Hirmand River on the border of Iran and Afghanistan is a potential point of conflict over scarce water resources in the region between these two countries.<\/p>\n Iran and Afghanistan have signed a treaty for the use of Hirmand water in 1972, based on which the annual amount of water that enters Iran from the Hirmand River is determined, but Iran is not aware of the amount of water that enters Iran and this country is not satisfied with the flow of the water.<\/p>\n The water treaty between Afghanistan and Iran was signed between Musa Shafiq and Amir Abbas Hoyda, the then prime ministers of the two countries.<\/p>\n The officials of the Taliban government have cited the lack of rainfall and the lack of a device to measure the amount of water entering Iran as the main reasons for not reaching the amount of water that Iran has received, and they have claimed that in some years, Iran has received water more than the amount of water that is stipulated in the treaty between the two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After the Taliban announced that the work of \u201cPashdan Dam\u201d in Herat has been completed up to 80 percent and will soon be put into operation, it faced a wave of criticism in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Eisa Bozorgzadeh, the spokesperson of Iran\u2019s water industry, said that the construction of this dam will severely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[885,4565,503,4564,1310,1341,4563],"class_list":["post-7086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","tag-border-issue","tag-border-waters","tag-headline","tag-irrigation","tag-neighbors","tag-water","tag-water-dam"],"yoast_head":"\n