Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government must shoulder their full responsibility and counter terrorist and apartheid groups based in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
Faraan: “Given good relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Iraq, we do not expect the territory of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region to be a place for terrorist acts and threats against Iran,” Amir-Abdollahian said in a meeting with Iraqi National Security Adviser Qasim al-Araji in Tehran on Saturday.
He added that Iran has always supported a developed, free and independent Iraq and prosperity for its government and nation. Iran, however, “will not tolerate the continuation of the armed terrorists’ presence in the Kurdistan Region and their moves against Iran’s security,” the top diplomat emphasized.
Amir-Abdollahian noted that Tehran and Baghdad have growing strategic relations in all sectors and stressed the importance of improving bilateral cooperation in the security fields, including the battle against armed terrorists based in Iraq’s Kurdistan. “We regard Iraq’s security as Iran’s security,” the foreign minister added.
Al-Araji, who is in Tehran at the head of a high-ranking security delegation, said the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government would definitely counter any measure against Iran’s security. Based on Iraq’s constitution, no individual or movement is allowed to conduct a move that disturbs security of the neighbors.
Recently, Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) launched a series of multi-pronged military attacks on bases of anti-Iran terrorists in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, which were found to have played a role in fueling violent riots across Iran. In a phone call with his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein last week, the Iranian foreign minister said that the Islamic Republic will not tolerate continued acts of aggression against it by terrorist groups based in the Arab country.
