Iraq begins relocating Iranian Kurdish fighters from Iran border

Iraq’s Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein speaks with the media after a gathering with Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, in Baghdad, Iraq, August 22, 2023. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani/File {photograph} Acquire Licensing Rights

BAGHDAD, Sept 12 (Reuters) – Iraq has started relocating Iranian Kurdish groups from Iraq’s Kurdish space frontiers with Iran to camps faraway from the border as part of a security settlement between Baghdad and Tehran, Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein talked about on Tuesday.

Iraq and Iran signed a border security settlement in March, a switch Iraqi officers talked about was aimed primarily at tightening the frontier with Iraq’s Kurdish space, the place Tehran says armed Kurdish dissidents pose a menace to its security. study further

“Based on the settlement between Iraq and Iran, essential measures have been taken to remove these groups from the border areas and they also have been housed in camps deep inside Iraqi Kurdistan,” Hussein suggested a press conference on Tuesday.

Hussein talked about he would go to Tehran on Wednesday to ship the message particularly individual inside the hopes that it’d forestall any escalation on the border.

Iran has prolonged accused Iraq’s autonomous northern Kurdish space of sheltering militant groups involved in assaults in direction of the Islamic Republic, with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in flip repeatedly concentrating on their bases. study further

The Iranian abroad ministry talked about ultimate month that beneath the settlement struck with Iraq, Baghdad devoted to disarm Iranian Kurdish opposition groups in Iraq’s Kurdistan space, shut their bases, and relocate them to totally different locations sooner than September 19. study further

Iranian officers have talked about that, if the deadline was missed, they could resume assaults in direction of dissident groups inside Iraqi Kurdistan that Tehran had usually undertaken until the highest of ultimate yr.

In September 2022, the Revolutionary Guards fired missiles and drones at militant targets at Iraq’s Kurdish space, killing 13 of us, consistent with native authorities.

“We will speak about with the Iranian aspect to not threaten to utilize violence and to not threaten to assault some areas inside the Kurdistan space of Iraq,” Hussein talked about.

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