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Article: IRAN: HIRMAND RIVER FLOWING AGAIN.(Iran and Afghanistan reach water supply settlement)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- January 6, 2003
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Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Rohani told Afghan President Karzai's national-security adviser Rasul during their 29 December meeting in Tehran that Iran is serious about implementation of the agreement governing the flow of the Hirmand (Helmand) River's water from Afghanistan into Iran, Iranian state television reported. A 1973 Tehran-Kabul agreement establishes how much Hirmand River water should reach Iran, but the Taliban did not fulfill this requirement. The river's water resumed flowing to Iran on 25 October 2002 and stopped about 10 days later. The river's flow into Iran started again on 15 December, but the volume continued to fall short of ...