Clashes break out between ‘Iranian border guards and the Taliban’

TEHRAN, Dec,  02 (YPA) – Clashes broke out Wednesday between Iranian army border guards and Taliban fighters at the country’s southeastern border.

Tasnim News Agency reported that clashes between border guards and the Taliban broke out near in Sikhsar region in Iran’s Sistan and Balochistan Province on the border with Nimruz province of Afghanistan.

According to local people, the clashes came after the 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 but some pieces of land belonging to the Iranian farmers were divided by the wall.

Meanwhile, it was reported recently that armed men fired 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.

E.M