Baghdad announces the closure of the Iranian opposition camps...and their fate may be similar to tha

POSTED ON[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] BY [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

[size=52]Baghdad announces the closure of the Iranian opposition camps...and their fate may be similar to that of the PMOI[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]Iran seems to have succeeded in gaining a new pressure card in exchange for untrue allegations related to the Iranian opposition parties in Kurdistan.[/size]
[size=45]Observers deny the relationship of these parties to the events taking place inside Iran, and that what is happening is an attempt to influence the region and the government.[/size]
[size=45]The government spokesman, Basem Al-Awadi, confirmed that Iraq has fulfilled its obligations regarding the agreement signed with Iran.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Awadi said in a tweet to him on the “X” Twitter platform previously, that “the most important principles of foreign policy is that Iraq is not a party to harming its neighbors.”[/size]
[size=45]He added, "Iraqi sovereignty requires security understandings to protect Iraq's borders from any aggression, so Iraq signed an agreement with Iran stipulating (preventing the infiltration of militants, handing over wanted persons, disarming and removing the camps), and Iraq has fulfilled its commitment."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Awadi's comment came just hours after the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Nasser Kanaani, said that his country had obtained an Iraqi pledge to disarm the Kurdish parties, in addition to evacuating the military headquarters used by this opposition and transferring them to camps designated by the Iraqi government.[/size]
[size=45]And last March, the National Security Adviser, Qassem Al-Araji, signed with his Iranian counterpart, Ali Shamkhani, an agreement of “joint security cooperation,” after negotiations that took place on the impact of multiple missile and march attacks against sites inside Kurdistan.[/size]
[size=45]At the end of last year, the coordination framework parties were forced, due to popular pressure, to agree to hold a session in parliament to discuss the Iranian attacks for the first time after 2003.[/size]
[size=45]Then the goal of the session was reduced to “violations by Iran and Turkey,” then a new name for the session was “preserving sovereignty,” and it eventually turned into a secret session.[/size]
[size=45]In the closed session, the paragraph “Kuwaiti violations” was added to the list of previous countries, according to what was leaked at the time from behind the scenes of the session, which ended with public discussions.[/size]
[size=45]At that time, Ismail Qaani was in Baghdad, and it is a strange coincidence that the commander of the Quds Force was present again (a few days ago) with Baghdad announcing the implementation of the agreement with Tehran.[/size]
[size=45]At the time, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry had condemned Iran's bombing of Kurdistan with missiles, while Tehran described the attack as against "terrorist separatist groups."[/size]
[size=45]At the time, Iran threatened a “land war,” similar to what Turkey is doing against the PKK forces, but Iraqi sources played down the possibility of that happening.[/size]
[size=45]According to some leaks, Tehran is penetrating into Iraqi territory by about 20 km, while Tehran claimed earlier that it had an agreement with Iraq to disarm the opposition.[/size]
[size=45]Last year, Iranian Intelligence Minister Ismail Khatib revealed a recent agreement between his country and Iraq to disarm the Iranian Kurdish opposition parties in the Kurdistan region.[/size]
[size=45]"The Iraqi authorities will disarm the counter-revolutionary terrorist elements in the Kurdistan region of Iraq as soon as possible, after the agreements reached," the minister said, in a statement carried by the semi-official Iranian Fars news agency.[/size]
[size=45]Tehran accuses the "Pejak" group, which it says numbers between 1,000 and 1,200 between Syria and Iraq, of carrying out attacks inside the Islamic Republic.[/size]
[size=45]The PJAK is a force affiliated with the Kurdistan Free Life Party, led by Abd al-Rahman Haji Ahmadi, which was founded in 2004.[/size]
[size=45]However, according to a former deputy in the Kurdistan Parliament who spoke to (Al-Mada), the “PJAK” group has coordination with Tehran regarding the attacks carried out inside Iran. Tehran had earlier claimed responsibility for the bombing of the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iran, known as (Hadka), in Koysanjak, and the headquarters of the Revolutionary Association of Kurdistan Toilers and the Association of Toilers of Iranian Kurdistan in Zarkoiz, Sulaymaniyah.[/size]
[size=45]Last July, the Iranian Chief of Staff, Mohammad Bagheri, gave the Iraqi government until next September to disarm the Iranian Kurdish parties opposed to Tehran.[/size]
[size=45]Bagheri told Iranian state television: "If Iraq does not fulfill its obligations regarding terrorist groups in northern Iraq until September, we will strongly repeat operations against these groups."[/size]
[size=45]And in other Iranian media outlets, Bagheri revealed that the Revolutionary Guards had carried out missile strikes and “drones” against opposition groups in Kurdistan.[/size]
[size=45]He added, "After the Iraqi government committed itself to disarming these groups and preventing their actions until September, this process stopped."[/size]
[size=45]Tehran was not convinced of Baghdad's ability to control the common border strip with Kurdistan, which is more than 700 km long.[/size]
[size=45]“The Kurdish opposition parties that sought refuge in Iraq in the eighties of the last century pledged after 1992 to the Kurdistan government to move away from the borders and did not carry out any military operations, unlike the Workers’ Party,” says Abdul Salam Berwari, a former deputy in the Kurdistan Parliament.[/size]
[size=45]And he adds, “The only group that carries out operations inside Iran is the PJAK, which is linked to the Workers’ Party and has good relations with Tehran, and is working to give the latter justifications to intervene in the issue of the opposition parties in Kurdistan.”[/size]
[size=45]Berwari asserts that the Iranian opposition parties "did not interfere throughout the last year, during which demonstrations took place in Iran, and they remained neutral," noting that "the United Nations is supervising the centers for Iranian refugees in Kurdistan."[/size]
[size=45]Berwari does not rule out that the issue of the Iranian parties is part of the file of relations with Iran and the oil-for-gas deal.[/size]
[size=45]The former deputy believes that these parties will be transferred outside Kurdistan, as happened with the People's Mujahideen, which was transferred to Ramadi and then outside Iraq (the last batch left Iraq in 2016 to Albania).[/size]
[size=45]In addition, the leader of the Umma Party, Mithal al-Alusi, considered that Iran has been “fabricating stories and illusions” for 20 years to weaken the Iraqi political front and put pressure on Prime Minister Muhammad al-Sudani.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Alusi said in an interview with (Al-Mada): “Iran is presenting arguments in order to achieve goals far from good neighborliness with the help of its lackeys at home, and as the Sunni cities have obeyed, it is now trying with Kurdistan.”[/size]
[size=45]And he continues, “Tehran wants to control every geographical or economic region in Iraq outside its influence, but Kurdistan is solid despite the siege imposed on it and the bombing from Iran and Turkey.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Alusi, a former deputy, believes that the process of closing the camps or expelling the opposition parties will not solve the internal crisis in Iran.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Alusi asserts that "the security breaches that took place in Iran were not committed by the opposition in Kurdistan, but by parties, perhaps from within Iran itself, or linked to Iraqi factions, to give a justification for putting pressure on the region."[/size]
[size=45][You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]