Talabani visits Tehran amidst Iranian threats to Iraqi Kurdistan

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[size=52]Talabani visits Tehran amidst Iranian threats to Iraqi Kurdistan[/size]

[size=45]The head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Pavel Talabani, whose party has strong relations with Iran, arrived in Tehran on Sunday to hold discussions with Iranian officials regarding “the file of Iranian opposition parties present in the region,” amid fears that Tehran will repeat its military operations against those groups.[/size]
[size=45]Media outlets affiliated with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan reported that Talabani would hold “important meetings” with some Iranian officials.[/size]
[size=45]The file of the Iranian opposition parties
: For their part, Iraqi Kurdish political sources in the Kurdistan region told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that Talabani “will discuss the file of the Iranian opposition parties present in the region.”[/size]
[size=45]Sources in Sulaymaniyah, preferring not to mention their names, told Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed that “Pavel Talabani arrived in Tehran late last night, with prominent Iraqi Kurdish leaders, with the aim of holding important meetings with Iranian officials, related to the file of the Iranian Kurdish opposition present on the border.” within the region.”[/size]
[size=45]The same sources added that “Talabani’s visit came in coordination with the Iraqi government, especially since the majority of Iranian Kurdish opposition groups are located in areas under the control of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, led by Bafel Talabani, and therefore the latter will discuss this matter with the Iranians, for the purpose of finding solutions to the issue of transferring those groups to other areas.” Within the region far from the borders, and preventing any armed gatherings or any suspicious movements against Iran.”[/size]
[size=45]She stated, “After the return of the President of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Bafel Jalal Talabani, to Iraq, he will inform the Iraqi government of the results of his dialogues with Iranian officials with the aim of implementing the security agreement. There is seriousness in implementing the agreement, due to the great Iranian threats and pressure on Baghdad in order to dismantle the existing Iranian Kurdish opposition groups.” On the Iraqi-Iranian border in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.[/size]
[size=45]The same sources confirmed that “Baghdad and the authorities in the Kurdistan region did not agree on the new places to which the Iranian Kurdish opposition could be transferred and removed from the border with Iran. This matter is under study, and there is intervention by the United Nations in this file, since these parties exist as political asylum.” And the humanitarian.”[/size]
[size=45]The Union President's visit to Tehran comes amid escalating Iranian threats against the Kurdistan region of Iraq if the recent agreement between Tehran and Baghdad regarding disarming the Iranian Kurdish opposition is not implemented.[/size]
[size=45]Tehran and Baghdad had previously confirmed concluding an agreement regarding the Iranian Kurdish opposition present in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.[/size]
[size=45]Yesterday, Saturday, Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi said, in a phone call with Iraqi Prime Minister, Muhammad Shiaa al-Sudani, that “any move by separatist terrorist groups will be a step against the security of the region and is intolerable.”[/size]
[size=45]For his part, the Operations Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Brigadier General Abbas Nilforshan, yesterday, Saturday, threatened to destroy the Iraqi Kurdistan region unless it fulfills its pledges, in accordance with the three agreements recently concluded between Baghdad, Tehran, and Erbil.[/size]
[size=45]Nilforshan said, “The end of the implementation of our agreement concluded with Iraq is September 19. If they do not implement their obligations, we will return to the previous situation, and we will be forced to defend the interests of the Iranian people.” He added: “We are committed to the content of the concluded agreement, not a word less or more, and just as Tehran has fulfilled its pledges, it expects the other party to adhere to them.”[/size]
[size=45]The Iraqi National Security Advisor, Qasim Al-Araji, confirmed last Thursday that his country is making “great efforts” to implement the security agreement with Iran related to dismantling Iranian Kurdish opposition groups located on the Iraqi-Iranian border in the Iraqi Kurdistan region.[/size]
[size=45]The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Nasser Kanaani, said on the 28th of last month that an agreement had been concluded between Iran and Iraq, “under which the Iraqi government pledged to disarm separatist armed terrorist groups on Iraqi soil and the Kurdistan region,” in reference to the armed Iranian Kurdish opposition present there. .[/size]
[size=45]Kanaani added that Iraq also “pledged to evacuate the military headquarters they use and transfer them to camps designated by the Iraqi government.”[/size]
[size=45]Pressure on Baghdad and the region
. For his part, researcher in political and security affairs, Muayyad Al-Juhaishi, told Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed, “The Iraqi government is serious about implementing the security agreement with Tehran, as it is well aware of the danger of the security escalation that Iran could work on if it is not implemented.” The agreement and the return of military action against the headquarters of the Iranian Kurdish opposition parties near the border.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Juhaishi stated that “Iranian pressure is not only on Baghdad, but even on the Kurdistan region, especially since the Iranian Kurdish opposition parties are present inside the region, and Iran believes that there is support for these parties from the influential Kurdish parties in the region, and for this reason the issue of dismantling the headquarters of those parties falls on The responsibility of the center and the region.”[/size]
[size=45]Repeated Iranian attacks target Iraqi towns and border areas in the Kurdistan region, which Tehran says harbor Kurdish groups it classifies as “terrorist,” most notably the “Iranian Kurdistan Democratic Party” (Hadka), the leftist Kurdish “Komala” Party, and the “Free Life” Party (PJAK). In addition to the Kurdish nationalist organization “Khabat”.[/size]
[size=45]These forces and parties are active in the regions and towns of the Iraqi-Iranian border strip, which are areas with difficult terrain, most notably the regions of the mountains and villages of Choman, Sidkan, Soran, Sayyid Sadiq, Khalifan, Balkaiti, Qandil, Kuysanjak, Halabja, and Rania within the Iraqi Kurdistan region, north of Erbil and east of Sulaymaniyah. Iranian accusations are directed at parties within the Kurdistan region that they provide indirect support to opposition Kurdish parties and groups out of Kurdish national sympathy.[/size]
[size=45]Last November and December, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard carried out massive air, missile and artillery attacks, targeting the headquarters and various sites of Iranian Kurdish opposition groups, east of Sulaymaniyah and northwest of Erbil, resulting in the killing and wounding of dozens of members of those groups, in addition to Iraqi citizens. In addition to causing material losses to public and private property in those areas.[/size]
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