Iraq to redeploy forces on borders with Iran, Turkey
An area in Kurdistan region previously bombarded by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Photo: Al-Arabiya News
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – The Iraqi Ministerial Council for National Security announced during a meeting on Wednesday a plan to redeploy Iraqi border forces along the borders with Iran and Turkey, according to a statement cited by the Iraqi News Agency (INA).
The statement elaborated that a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani addressed the Turkish and Iranian violations against the Iraqi borders and the bombing of areas in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
The Ministerial Council for National Security decided to coordinate with the government in Kurdistan and the Ministry of Peshmerga in order to unify the national efforts to protect the country’s borders, according to the statement.
INA reported on Tuesday that Al-Sudani requested to study ways to end the obstacles to the deployment of Iraqi forces on the borders with neighboring countries.
The decision was issued after the ground forces of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards announced on Tuesday the launch of new attacks against Kurdish dissidents stationed in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
The decision also follows an announcement by the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, that Iraq’s central government affirmed its commitment to remove ‘terrorist groups’ from Iran’s western borders.