Iraqi Prime Minister Muhammad Shia al-Sudani said that his country would not allow any groups or parties to launch attacks on Iranian territory from Iraqi territory, while the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, questioned this pledge.
Al-Sudani added, in a press conference in Tehran with Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi, that his government relies in its foreign policy on the principle of respect and non-interference in the internal affairs of states.
At the same press conference, Raisi said that ensuring the security and stability of the region must be done through the countries and forces of the region.
Raisi pointed out that the American presence in Iraq and Afghanistan did not lead to enhancing security in these two countries, as he put it.
Khamenei is skeptical
On the other hand, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, questioned Iraq's commitment to security control of the borders between the two countries, during his meeting with the Iraqi Prime Minister in Tehran.
Khamenei said, "We regret endangering our security from Iraqi regions, and the solution is for the Iraqi government to extend its authority over those regions," according to the Islamic Republic News Agency, "IRNA."
Khamenei stressed "the need to implement all agreements concluded earlier between Tehran and Baghdad, and warned against some intentions that do not want an agreement and cooperation between these two countries," according to the Iranian agency.
Last Wednesday, Iraq announced a "strategy" to secure the borders with Iran and Turkey, and the government said in a statement that it had decided to "devise a plan to redeploy the Iraqi border forces, to hold the zero line along the borders with Iran and Turkey."
Last Tuesday, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard carried out missile strikes and booby-trapped marches on sites belonging to the Iranian Kurdish opposition stationed in Iraqi Kurdistan, the autonomous region in northern Iraq.
In turn, Turkey launched last Sunday a military operation against sites of the Kurdistan Workers' Party and the Kurdish People's Protection Units in northern Iraq and Syria.