Hari Rud

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Ha·ri Rud

(här′ē ro͞od′)

A river, about 1,125 km (700 mi) long, of northwest Afghanistan, northeast Iran, and southern Turkmenistan.

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Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif has repeated Tehran's claim to water from the Hamoon Lake and two rivers, Helmand and Harirud. "I have discussed this issue in my meetings with the former and current presidents, the Afghan chief executive, the Afghan advisor of national security and Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs,'' he is quoted saying in Iran's Parliament.

Differences over water rights

It also exchanged gunfire over the Afghan frontier in a dispute over sharing water from the border river Harirud.

New Iranian prez breaks his 'healing' promises

The Chaman transform fault in the east and Harirud fault in the west bound the Makran region.

Petrogenesis of Plio-Pleistocene volcanic rocks from the Chagai arc, Balochistan, Pakistan

Dr Rangeen Dadfar Spanta, the head of national security, has said Afghanistan's neighbours are behind delays to complete the nearly four-decade old Salma Dam which is being built by India on the Harirud River.