Baghdad The Iranian Ambassador in Baghdad accused the officials of the Kurdistan region of “not wanting to expel terrorist groups”, and stressed that his country demanded the Iraqi government to disarm the anti-Iranian groups.
The Iranian News Agency (IRNA) quoted Ambassador Muhammad Kazem Al-Sadeq as saying: “The officials of the Kurdistan region seem that they do not want to expel the terrorist groups that live among the Kurds and have provided them with an umbrella of support.”
The Ambassador said that “76 documents and evidences of anti-security activities and the headquarters of terrorist groups and the anti-Iran armed opposition were handed over to the Iraqi parties in Baghdad and Erbil in the Kurdistan Region, and they asked us to provide a timetable within 10 days to meet Iran’s demands in this regard.”
The Iranian Ambassador stressed, “Nevertheless, a ground attack on the sites of terrorist groups in Kurdistan is out of the question.”
He said that Iran “asked the Iraqi side to control the borders by the central government of this country, because the borders are not controlled by the Iraqi side.”
He added: “We asked the Iraqi government to set a timetable for disarming the opposition (the anti-Iranian Kurdish groups in northern Iraq), and we also demanded that the opposition be disarmed and returned to the camps as refugees.”
Al-Sadiq confirmed: “The Iraqi government agreed to our demands and requested a deadline for the issue of disarmament.”
Source: National Iraqi News Agency