'The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan considers dialogue and negotiation to be a reasonable way for any problem. Taliban Defense Ministry spokesman Enayatullah Khowarazmi confirmed the clashes in the Kang district of Nimroz Province while calling for 'dialogue and negotiations.' The Islamic Emirate does not want to fight with its neighbors,' Takor added. 'During the battle, one person was killed on each side and many were injured.' 'Today, in Nimroz Province, Iranian border forces fired toward Afghanistan, which was met with a counter-reaction,' a spokesman for the Taliban-run Interior Ministry, Abdul Nafi Takor, said in a statement.

IRNA said that following the border skirmishes, Brigadier General Ahmadreza Radan, chief commander of the national police, issued a directive to the border guards, asking them to 'defend the borders bravely and decisively and not allow any trespassing or encroachment.'Ī Taliban spokesman said two people were killed in the clashes while accusing Iranian forces of shooting first.

'The Taliban forces initiated the assault in contravention of international law and principles of good neighborliness,' Rezai said. The official government news agency IRNA quoted Brigadier General Qasem Rezaei, deputy commander of the national police as saying that a border outpost in southeastern Iran had come under 'heavy attack' by the Taliban, prompting a 'a decisive and courageous counteraction' from Iranian border guards. The incident on May 27 came amid tensions between the two countries over water rights.īoth sides accused each other of starting the shooting. Two Iranian border guards and one Taliban fighter were killed after the two sides exchange gunfire on the Islamic republic's border with Afghanistan. 'It's like filing a complaint with the killer against the killer,' she said. But she has little hope that real justice will be served. Hours before his death, Rezaei was filmed tearing down a poster of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei outside the governor's office, where hundreds of protesters had gathered.īarzekar filed a lawsuit with Iran's judiciary demanding that the authorities find and punish those behind her son's death. When she called her son, he said he was taking a walk.īut hours later, the family identified his body inside an ambulance parked outside a hospital in Amol. The streets were ringing with gunfire and choking with smoke.

'But they took him from me,' added the 42-year-old, who spent years looking after her ex-husband, a veteran of the Iran-Iraq War who was exposed to chemical weapons and suffered from severe post-traumatic stress disorder.īarzekar recalls the day Rezaei was killed. The mother of two described her son as a lively and strong young man who 'could have lived for another 50 years.' I suffered so that my child could be successful. 'I raised my child in very tough conditions. 'I want justice for Erfan,' Farzaneh Barzekar told RFE/RL by telephone. But eyewitnesses told the family that government security forces shot and killed the young man on the street. The authorities told Rezaei's family that the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization, an exiled opposition group, might have been involved in his killing, without providing evidence. Special Report: The Protests That Shook Iran's Clerical System

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