Iran moves tanks to border with Iraq

Highlights: Iran's Revolutionary Guards are stationing units on the border with Iraq. The neighboring country was apparently given an ultimatum. The leadership in Tehran accuses Kurdish parties and groups in northern Iraq of supporting the nationwide protests in Iran in the fall of 2022. The young woman, an Iranian Kurdish, had been taken into police custody on September 13, 2022, for inappropriate clothing. She died there three days later, presumably from blows to the head. The death triggered massive protests across the country, in which more than 500 people were killed by the security forces.

The regime in Tehran is increasing the pressure against Kurdish minorities: the Revolutionary Guards are stationing units on the border with Iraq. The neighboring country was apparently given an ultimatum.

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Iran's Revolutionary Guards at a military exercise on the island of Abu Musa: Iran's leadership sends an ultimatum to Iraq

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For years, Iran's Shiite leadership has been influencing the political fate of Iraq, and Tehran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guards are even operating in the neighboring country. Now they are deploying tanks and artillery on the border.

Images and videos from the Tasnim news agency, which is close to the unit, showed military convoys on their way to the border area. According to the report, the background is an ultimatum from the Iranian leadership to Iraq. Tehran is calling on the neighboring country to fight Kurdish separatist groups more effectively.

According to information from Tehran, Iraq had committed itself in an agreement between the two countries at the end of August to disarm Kurdish resistance groups on its own territory. Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said at the time that there was an ultimatum until September 19 to implement the plans. On Wednesday, Iraq's Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein arrived in Tehran for talks.

The leadership in Tehran accuses Kurdish parties and groups in northern Iraq of supporting the nationwide protests in Iran in the fall of 2022. In 2022, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, a man in Iraq who receives broad support from Iranian groups, moved to the head of the government.

The Kurdish regions in northern Iraq are autonomously administered with their own parliament in the metropolis of Erbil.

Iran's power apparatus is preparing for the anniversary of the death of Jina Mahsa Amini. The young woman, an Iranian Kurdish, had been taken into police custody on September 13, 2022, for inappropriate clothing. She died there three days later, presumably from blows to the head.

This triggered massive protests across the country, in which more than 500 people were killed by the security forces in the course of the uprising. Tens of thousands of young Iranians ended up in prison. Security forces were also killed. Ahead of the anniversary, the leadership in Tehran has already sent additional forces to Amini's Kurdish hometown of Saghes.

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Iran moves tanks to border with Iraq

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