Tehran on Monday welcomed the decision of the Iraqi government to deploy forces in a border area of Iraqi Kurdistan, an autonomous region where Iranian Kurdish opponents are based.
Iran denounces in particular attacks against its territory carried out according to it by groups infiltrated from Iraq. “We have learned that the Iraqi government has decided to deploy its forces on the common border with the Kurdistan region of Iraq and we hope that this will happen (…) We welcome this decisionsaid Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani in his weekly press conference.
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Iraq had announced on 23 November that it was working on a “redeploymentof Iraqi forces along the border with Iran, after repeated shelling from Tehran against Iranian Kurdish armed opposition groups in Iraqi Kurdistan. The authorities of this region have announced that the “military reinforcementsdeployed at the border would be Peshmerga, the military forces of this area, in particular those who depend on the federal border guards in Baghdad. They promised that these border security procedures would be implemented “in the near future“.
Nasser Kanani’s statement comes amid protests in Iran sparked by the September 16 death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd who died after she was arrested by vice police for allegedly breaking the dress code. strict of the Islamic Republic. Iran accuses, among others, the Iranian Kurdish opposition based in the neighboring country of encouraging the demonstrations. According to Nasser Kanani, the forthcoming deployment of Iraqi forces is part of the “Baghdad promises to secure common borderss” with Iran.