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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea

February 27, 2021

Mohamad Javad Zarif

, Iranian Foreign Minister, called the attacks launched by the US on pro-Iranian militia positions in North East Syria "suspicious".



In a meeting with Iraqi Foreign Representative 

Fuad

Mohammed Hussein

, who is visiting Iran for the second time in a month, Zarif said these attacks "could have the purpose of disrupting relations between Tehran and Baghdad, as well as security. and stability in Iraq ". 



The head of Iranian diplomacy, in a note released by the foreign ministry, underlined: "We insist on asking the Iraqi government to identify those responsible for these incidents".



Military operations

Zarif refers in particular to the Katiuscia rocket attack on February 15 in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, in which an American soldier was wounded and a contractor died, an attack presumably launched by pro-Iranian militias. 



In response, the US bombed buildings used by pro-Iran and pro-Iraq paramilitary groups such as Kait'ib Hezbollah and Kait'ib Sayyid al Shuhada, in eastern Syria, on the border with Iraq, in the first such attack ordered by the Joe Biden's new administration.



On these bombings, Zarif denounced "the dangerous maneuver of the United States" to attack the border areas of Iraq and Syria as "a violation of the sovereignty" of both countries.

Hussein, the Iranian official note continues, said the Iraqi government will not allow the recent incidents in Iraq to affect the good relations between Tehran and Baghdad.

The Iraqi foreign minister also urged further bilateral relations to be promoted and assured that his country is willing to expand ties with Iran.



Iraqi diplomacy chief Fuad Mohammed Hussein also met with Supreme National Security Council Secretary

Ali Shamjani

, who accused the United States of trying to expand terrorist activities in the Middle East with its latest attacks.