ATLANTA (Pajhwok): Former US envoy for reconciliation in Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad has asked Iran to avoid threatening Afghanistan over its share in Helmand water.
Khalilzad remarks come days after Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi warned the acting government in Afghanistan that its noncompliance with joint agreements on water rights in regions along their shared border was escalating tensions between Tehran and Kabul.
Raisi warned during a visit to the southeastern Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchistan on May 18 that the "rulers of Afghanistan" should "take the issue of...Iran's water rights seriously."
In a series of tweets, Khalilzad wrote: “Iranian . . .
