Iraq intends to deploy its forces on the borders with Turkey and Iran

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[size=52]Iraq intends to deploy its forces on the borders with Turkey and Iran[/size]

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Iranian missile strikes targeted areas in Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq
announced on Wednesday its intention to redeploy its forces on its borders with both Iran and Turkey, in a decision that comes after the repeated bombings carried out by its two neighbors that targeted Kurdish, Turkish and Iranian rebels in the Iraqi Kurdistan region.[/size]
[size=45]The Iranian Revolutionary Guard launched missile strikes and booby-trapped marches on sites belonging to the Iranian Kurdish opposition, which has been stationed for decades in Iraqi Kurdistan, the autonomous region in northern Iraq.[/size]
[size=45]In turn, Turkey launched a military operation on Sunday against sites of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in northern Iraq and Syria.[/size]
[size=45]It seems that the Iraqi declaration is directed specifically at Iran, which confirmed earlier Wednesday its intention to continue confronting the “threat” emanating from the Iraqi region.[/size]
[size=45]The border areas in Iraqi Kurdistan are under the control of the Peshmerga, which are special military forces in the Kurdistan region, but they are administratively affiliated to the Iraqi Ministry of Defense.[/size]
[size=45]The Iraqi government said in a statement issued after a meeting of the Ministerial Council for National Security that it had decided to "devise a plan to redeploy the Iraqi border forces to hold the zero line along the borders with Iran and Turkey."[/size]
[size=45]The meeting was chaired by the Prime Minister, Mohamed Shiaa Al-Sudani.[/size]
[size=45]The statement indicated that this plan will be developed “in coordination with the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq and the Ministry of Peshmerga,” noting that the Chief of Staff of the Peshmerga participated in the meeting.[/size]
[size=45]On Tuesday, a delegation of Peshmerga met representatives of the Ministries of Interior and Defense. The two sides agreed on a "strategy aimed at enhancing border security," according to a statement issued by the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.[/size]
[size=45]"The Kurdistan Regional Government will send reinforcements from the Peshmerga to the border," Lawk Ghafouri, a spokesman for the Kurdistan Regional Government, told AFP.[/size]
[size=45]In Tehran, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said that his country hopes "not to use Iraqi lands to threaten Iran's security."[/size]
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