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Tehran renews warning against Saudi Arabia, Iraqi Kurdistan of ‘destabilizing Iran’
Posted on July 18, 2016 by Editorial Staff in Kurdistan, Politics
Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council. Photo: Presstv.ir
TEHRAN,— A senior advisor of the Iranian supreme leader issued on Saturday new warnings against Saudi and Kurdish officials and accused them of “activating” armed opposition groups against Tehran.
Mohsen Rezai, head of the Expediency Discernment Council, an influential consultative body appointed by Iran’s Supreme Leader, said Riyadh had “set up military bases” in the Kurdistan Region and Pakistan in order to “destabilize” the Islamic Republic.
Speaking to Iranian state television, the former presidential candidate and ex-chief of elite troops warned if Erbil failed to contain the movements of armed Iranian Kurdish groups in the Kurdistan Region, Tehran would “carry out military actions” against the groups and “the training base” backed by the Saudi Arabia in the area.
“The Saudi consulate in Erbil has set up a training base there and established two offices near our borders,” Rezai told Iranian state television on a Saturday evening program and warned if officials in the Kurdistan Region did not “take necessary measures”, the Islamic Republic would “soon carry out [military] annihilation actions against them [Iranian Kurdish groups] and Mr. Barzani would be the one to blame,” Rezai said, referring to Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani.
Last June the Iranian army has shelled remote bordering areas in neighboring Iraqi Kurdistan, where most Iranian Kurdish troops are based, in apparent response to Kurdish rebels attacking their bases.
Earlier in July Iran’s top army commander has threatened Iraqi Kurdistan, saying that Iran would go beyond its borders to crush ‘terrorist threats’ emanating from groups based inside Kurdish territories. Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government KRG has strongly rejected the threats made by Maj. Gen. Salami
The KRG has officially denied the Iranian accusations in the past and said it has no control over armed groups opposed to the Islamic Republic.
Rezai’s comments came only days after senior Saudi intelligence official Turki al-Faisal attended the annual meeting of the armed Iranian opposition group Mojahedin-e -Khalq in Paris last week, prompting angry remarks from Tehran.
Iranian Kurdish rebels resumed in June their armed campaign for self-rule against the Islamic Republic after nearly two decades of non-military struggle. That month, Iran said its forces killed dozens of insurgents in Iranian Kurdistan bordering Iraqi Kurdistan, a country with a large Kurdish minority.
Also in July an Iranian parliamentarian survived an assassination attempt that killed his driver and a local official. Initial reports indicate that the attack may have been carried out by the Kurdish Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK).
Iranian security forces have arrested 17 people in the Kurdish city of Shno in Iranian Kurdistan earlier in July, after clashes were reported between members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and fighters from the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDP-I).
Six Kurdish KDPI Peshmerga and four Iranian elite troops were killed in a fight that took place in a village near the Kurdish town of Shno on June 16. At least two other deadly standoffs between the two groups have killed dozens more on both sides since April this year.
Ever since its emergence in 1979 the Islamic regime imposed discriminatory rules and laws against the Kurds in all social, political and economic fields.
The Kurds in Iran experience discrimination in the enjoyment of their religious, economic and cultural rights. Parents are banned from registering their babies with certain Kurdish names, and religious minorities that are mainly or partially Kurdish are targeted by measures designed to stigmatize and isolate them.
Kurds are also discriminated against in their access to employment, adequate housing and political rights, and so suffer entrenched poverty, which has further marginalized them.
Estimate to over 12 million Kurds live in Iranian Kurdistan.
http://ekurd.net/iran-warn-saudi-iraqi-kurdistan-2016-07-18
Posted on July 18, 2016 by Editorial Staff in Kurdistan, Politics
Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council. Photo: Presstv.ir
TEHRAN,— A senior advisor of the Iranian supreme leader issued on Saturday new warnings against Saudi and Kurdish officials and accused them of “activating” armed opposition groups against Tehran.
Mohsen Rezai, head of the Expediency Discernment Council, an influential consultative body appointed by Iran’s Supreme Leader, said Riyadh had “set up military bases” in the Kurdistan Region and Pakistan in order to “destabilize” the Islamic Republic.
Speaking to Iranian state television, the former presidential candidate and ex-chief of elite troops warned if Erbil failed to contain the movements of armed Iranian Kurdish groups in the Kurdistan Region, Tehran would “carry out military actions” against the groups and “the training base” backed by the Saudi Arabia in the area.
“The Saudi consulate in Erbil has set up a training base there and established two offices near our borders,” Rezai told Iranian state television on a Saturday evening program and warned if officials in the Kurdistan Region did not “take necessary measures”, the Islamic Republic would “soon carry out [military] annihilation actions against them [Iranian Kurdish groups] and Mr. Barzani would be the one to blame,” Rezai said, referring to Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani.
Last June the Iranian army has shelled remote bordering areas in neighboring Iraqi Kurdistan, where most Iranian Kurdish troops are based, in apparent response to Kurdish rebels attacking their bases.
Earlier in July Iran’s top army commander has threatened Iraqi Kurdistan, saying that Iran would go beyond its borders to crush ‘terrorist threats’ emanating from groups based inside Kurdish territories. Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government KRG has strongly rejected the threats made by Maj. Gen. Salami
The KRG has officially denied the Iranian accusations in the past and said it has no control over armed groups opposed to the Islamic Republic.
Rezai’s comments came only days after senior Saudi intelligence official Turki al-Faisal attended the annual meeting of the armed Iranian opposition group Mojahedin-e -Khalq in Paris last week, prompting angry remarks from Tehran.
Iranian Kurdish rebels resumed in June their armed campaign for self-rule against the Islamic Republic after nearly two decades of non-military struggle. That month, Iran said its forces killed dozens of insurgents in Iranian Kurdistan bordering Iraqi Kurdistan, a country with a large Kurdish minority.
Also in July an Iranian parliamentarian survived an assassination attempt that killed his driver and a local official. Initial reports indicate that the attack may have been carried out by the Kurdish Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK).
Iranian security forces have arrested 17 people in the Kurdish city of Shno in Iranian Kurdistan earlier in July, after clashes were reported between members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and fighters from the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDP-I).
Six Kurdish KDPI Peshmerga and four Iranian elite troops were killed in a fight that took place in a village near the Kurdish town of Shno on June 16. At least two other deadly standoffs between the two groups have killed dozens more on both sides since April this year.
Ever since its emergence in 1979 the Islamic regime imposed discriminatory rules and laws against the Kurds in all social, political and economic fields.
The Kurds in Iran experience discrimination in the enjoyment of their religious, economic and cultural rights. Parents are banned from registering their babies with certain Kurdish names, and religious minorities that are mainly or partially Kurdish are targeted by measures designed to stigmatize and isolate them.
Kurds are also discriminated against in their access to employment, adequate housing and political rights, and so suffer entrenched poverty, which has further marginalized them.
Estimate to over 12 million Kurds live in Iranian Kurdistan.
http://ekurd.net/iran-warn-saudi-iraqi-kurdistan-2016-07-18
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