{"id":1078922,"date":"2021-12-03T00:43:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T05:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1078922"},"modified":"2021-12-03T00:43:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T05:43:55","slug":"taliban-clashes-with-iranian-army-over-border-misunderstanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taliban-clashes-with-iranian-army-over-border-misunderstanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Clashes with Iranian Army over Border &#039;Misunderstanding&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftaliban-clashes-with-iranian-army-over-border-misunderstanding%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1078922&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/taliban-fighters-september-15-2021-afghanistan-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Iranian soldiers <a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/181315\/Iran-military-clashes-with-armed-men-on-Afghan-border\">clashed<\/a> with&nbsp;Taliban members along the Iran-Afghanistan border between Iran\u2019s Sistan and Balochistan province and Afghanistan\u2019s Nimruz province on Wednesday, Iran\u2019s&nbsp;foreign ministry confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis evening, a dispute between people who reside on the border caused gunfire in the Sistan border area, which was handled and ended with the coordination of the border guards on both sides,\u201d Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said in a statement issued December 1.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Mehr News Agency (MNA) detailed the incident on Wednesday citing local eyewitness accounts. MNA said the clashes transpired after an ongoing border dispute along Iran\u2019s boundary with Afghanistan near Iran\u2019s southeastern Sikhsar region escalated on December 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe clashes came after unknown armed men made troubles for Iranian farmers whose lands cross a border wall that Iran recently built to curb smuggling and drug trafficking from the Afghan side of the border,\u201d the news agency revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[S]ome pieces of land belonging to the Iranian farmers were divided by the wall,\u201d MNA noted.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In the days immediately preceding Wednesday\u2019s border skirmish, the \u201carmed men\u201d \u2014 confirmed to be Taliban members on Thursday \u2014 allegedly \u201cfired on Iranian farmers, puncturing the tires of a number of their tractors because they misunderstood the wall and the activities of the Iranian farmers on their own lands,\u201d according to the press agency.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban \u201cdeployed a lot of their gangs to the area on Wednesday morning and started firing at the positions of the Iranian border guards, which was followed by a response from the land forces of the Iranian army, and the Their positions were hit back by artillery,\u201d MNA detailed. The encounter produced no known injuries on either side of the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe clashes ended and Iran is discussing the dispute over the border with the Taliban,\u201d Iran\u2019s semi-official Tasnim news agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/clashes-over-iran-afghanistans-border-misunderstanding-ended-2021-12-01\/\">reported<\/a> on December 1.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban deputy spokesman Bilal Karimi confirmed that members of his organization participated in the fighting on Wednesday by telling Afghanistan\u2019s Tolo News \u201cthe clashes had stopped,\u201d without providing further details.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid <a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/181328\/Wed-incident-at-border-with-Iran-won-t-happen-again-Taliban\">issued<\/a> a Twitter statement on December 2 in which he also confirmed the border encounter between Taliban fighters and members of the Iranian armed forces.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere was a misunderstanding between the Afghan and Iranian border guards in the border area of Kong city in Nimroz province, and with mutual understanding, the incident was controlled,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have issued the necessary instructions to prevent similar incidents,\u201d the spokesman added.<\/p>\n<p>Iran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2021\/08\/31\/hundreds-afghans-walk-west-iran\/\">shares<\/a> a 572-mile-long border with Afghanistan. While the states share much in terms of geography, ideological differences between Tehran and Kabul have long fostered frosty relations between the two neighbors. An estimated 90 percent of Iran\u2019s population follows Shia Islam, which is the country\u2019s official state-mandated religion. About 90 percent of Afghanistan\u2019s population follows Sunni Islam, making the country a natural rival of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban, which previously ruled Afghanistan from 1996-2000, reconquered Afghanistan on August 15 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/08\/15\/local-media-afghan-government-handing-country-to-taliban\/\">deposing<\/a> Kabul\u2019s U.S.-backed government. The regime quickly reinstated its historic ruling system of <em>sharia<\/em>, or Islamic law, based on its fundamentalist interpretation of Sunni Islam. The Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in part by staging a month-long ground offensive that allowed the group to sack key sites across the nation before it ultimately laid siege to Kabul, the Afghan national capital. The Taliban <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/07\/10\/taliban-capture-strategic-afghan-iran-border-crossing\/\">captured<\/a> a strategic Afghan-Iran border crossing known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-57773120\">Islam Qala<\/a> on July 9 as part of this preliminary campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s massive border with Afghanistan has allowed roughly 3.6 million Afghan refugees to cross into Iran in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the Taliban\u2019s takeover in August, hundreds of thousands of Afghan civilians have escaped into neighboring Iran using informal border crossings,\u201d Al-Monitor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2021\/12\/iranian-forces-taliban-clash-over-afghan-border-misunderstanding\">reported<\/a> on December 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Shiite Islamic Republic has pledged to work with Afghanistan\u2019s new Sunni extremist leaders despite their historically rocky relationship,\u201d the news site noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran\u2019s hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi has described the United States\u2019 \u2018military defeat\u2019 in Afghanistan as an opportunity for peace,\u201d Al-Monitor observed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian soldiers clashed with\u00a0Taliban members along the Iran-Afghanistan border between Iran\u2019s Sistan and Balochistan province and Afghanistan\u2019s Nimruz province on Wednesday, Iran\u2019s\u00a0foreign ministry confirmed. \u201cThis evening, a dispute between people &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}