Iran claims that security is now secured along the Afghan border

 The security of Iran's shared border with Afghanistan is absolutely secured, according to a senior Iranian military officer, because the Iranian Army's Ground Force has complete authority over the area.

One day after armed clashes between Iranian border guards and Taliban fighters in the region claimed the lives of three people, Kioumars Heydari, commander of the Iranian Army's Ground Force, made the comments during a visit to Iran's southeast Sistan and Baluchestan province, which borders Afghanistan.

According to him, the Iranian armed forces' presence on the shared border does not indicate that the nation is in danger; rather, it is done to preserve intelligence dominance and guarantee border security.

He also said that while Iran is devoted to the idea of good neighborliness, it will retaliate if the other side does not follow the law.

The confrontations ceased on Saturday, according to Iran's deputy police chief Qassem Rezaei, who was present during the visit, and total quiet has been restored along the shared border.

According to the Interior Ministry of Afghanistan and Iran's official IRNA news agency, violent battles between Iran and Afghanistan on Saturday resulted in the deaths of two Iranian border guards, one Taliban fighter, and numerous others near a border police station.

On Saturday morning, close to the police station on the border of the provinces of Sistan and Baluchestan and Nimroz, Afghanistan, the two sides exchanged accusations about who fired first.

Although the cause of the incident is yet unknown, the Iranian Embassy in Kabul and Afghanistan's acting Ministry of National Defense, which is controlled by the Taliban, have begun communication to look into the matter.

Because of a disagreement over Iran's water share from the Helmand River, tensions between the two nations have risen over the past several weeks. Iran is entitled to get 820 million cubic meters of water yearly from the Helmand River as per a 1973 pact between the two nations.

Iran has charged the interim Taliban administration in Afghanistan with preventing river water from reaching the province of Sistan and Baluchestan, which is suffering from a drought.