{"id":26505,"date":"2025-01-11T08:34:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T08:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=26505"},"modified":"2025-01-11T08:34:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T08:34:22","slug":"iran-to-discuss-helmand-water-dispute-with-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/01\/iran-to-discuss-helmand-water-dispute-with-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to discuss Helmand water dispute with Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Iran&#8217;s President, Masoud Pezeshkian, has stated that his country will engage in talks with Afghanistan&#8217;s de-facto government regarding the Helmand River water rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iranian media reported on Friday, January 10, that Pezeshkian made these comments during his visit to the Sistan and Baluchestan province.<\/p>\n<p>He added that a team from Iran&#8217;s Ministry of Energy would soon travel to Afghanistan to discuss the Helmand water issue with the Islamic Emirate officials.<\/p>\n<p>Pezeshkian emphasized that efforts are ongoing to resolve this issue and noted that Sistan and Baluchestan, with its access to the ocean, could offer a golden opportunity for Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The President also reiterated that all three countries should make good use of this opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Since the return of the Islamic Emirate to power in Afghanistan, while Iran has maintained generally positive relations with the regime, tensions have occasionally arisen over the Helmand water dispute.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s President, Masoud Pezeshkian, has stated that his country will engage in talks with Afghanistan&#8217;s de-facto government regarding the Helmand River water rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":26506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,233,8,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-iran","category-governance","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":63,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26507,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26505\/revisions\/26507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}