Iran welcomes Iraq's decision to send troops to the border

A picture of the damage to the headquarters of an Iranian Kurdish party in Erbil Governorate.

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Yesterday, Tehran welcomed the Iraqi government's decision to send troops to the border area with the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region, where Iranian Kurdish opponents are stationed.

Iran, in particular, denounced the attacks it accuses groups coming from Iraq of launching on its territory.

"We heard news about the Iraqi government's decision to deploy its forces on the borders of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, and we hope that this will happen and we welcome it," said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani, in his weekly press conference, adding: "If the Iraqi government needs technical assistance in this regard, We are ready to help her.”

On November 23, Iraq announced its intention to redeploy its forces on its borders with Iran and Turkey, after repeated bombings carried out by its two neighbors that targeted Kurdish, Turkish and Iranian rebels in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

And the military authorities in the region announced that the "military reinforcements" deployed on the borders consist of the Peshmerga, which are special military forces in the Kurdistan region, but they are administratively affiliated with the Iraqi Ministry of Defense.

It promised to implement these border security measures “in the near future.”

Kanaani's statements come at a time when Iran has been witnessing demonstrations since mid-September after the death of the 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, after she was arrested by the morality police in Tehran for not adhering to the dress code in Iran.

The Iranian government accuses the Kurdish opposition factions of stirring up unrest in Iran since September 16.

According to Kanaani, Baghdad's deployment of its forces on the border is part of Iraq's promises to "guarantee the security of the common border between the two countries."

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