TEHRAN, October 7 - Chairman of Iran's Expediency Council Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi warns the United States and the Israeli regime are behind a “dangerous and treasonous” plot to partition Iraq, following an independence referendum held in the Arab country’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
TEHRAN, October 7 -Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says Ankara intends to open a new border crossing with Iraq in cooperation with the central government in Baghdad after the Anatolian country closed the existing crossing in response to last week’s controversial referendum on independence in Iraq's Kurdistan region.
TEHRAN, October 6 - The Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah is hosting a funeral ceremony for Jalal Talabani, a former Iraqi president and veteran Kurdish leader, with foreign political personalities in attendance.
TEHRAN, October 6 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif left for Iraq on Friday to take part in the funeral service of former Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.
TEHRAN, October 5 - The Iraqi military says it has liberated the strategic town of Hawijah, ridding the Takfiri outfit of its last bastion in the northern part of the Arab state.
TEHRAN, October 4 - In the wake of the secessionist bids of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami says the Islamic Republic is opposed to disintegration of Iraq and any change in the country’s geographical borders.
TEHRAN, October 4 - A senior Iranian lawmaker has denounced the recent Kurdish secession referendum in northern Iraq as a “strategic mistake,” warning that the plebiscite will pose a myriad of challenges to the Kurdish region.
TEHRAN, October 2 - One American soldier from the US-led coalition has been killed and another injured in a roadside bomb explosion in Iraq, the Pentagon says.
TEHRAN, October 2 - Kurdish security forces known as Asayesh and Peshmerga fighters have deported scores of Arab and Turkmen families from Iraq’s northern province of Kirkuk following last week’s referendum on secession.
TEHRAN, October 1- Iraqi government forces and allied fighters from Popular Mobilization Units have established control over more than a dozen villages near the northern town of Hawijah.
TEHRAN, October 1 - A senior Iranian military commander says Iran and Iraq will hold joint military exercises along their border with the Kurdistan region in the coming days in line with Tehran's policy to support Baghdad’s central government, after the recent independence referendum in the semi-autonomous region.
TEHRAN, October 1-Iraq’s Hashd al-Sha’abi says the group has lost a valued sharpshooter during the battle to retake the northern town of al-Hawijah from the Takfiri terror group of Daesh.
TEHRAN, September 30 - Iraq says it will be taking control of the borders of its northern Kurdistan region — which has voted controversially to break away from the country — in coordination with Iran and Turkey.
TEHRAN, September 30 - The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has refused to relinquish control of its border crossings to the Iraqi government as Arab-Kurd tensions simmer in light of Monday’s referendum on the independence of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region from the rest of the Iraqi territory.
TEHRAN, September 30 - The United States does not officially recognize a unilateral independence referendum held by the Iraqi Kurdish region, says Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
TEHRAN, September 30 - The US-led coalition has confirmed that it killed 50 civilians during its airstrikes against what it called Daesh positions in Iraq and Syria in August.
TEHRAN, September 30- Iran’s prominent Sunni cleric Molavi Abdul Hamid has voiced his objection to the potential secession of the northern Kurdistan region from Iraqi mainland, urging the Kurdish people to maintain their unity.
TEHRAN, September 29 -Iraq’s to Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has voiced opposition to the secession of the northern Kurdistan region from the mainland, warning against the negative repercussions of such a move.
TEHRAN, September 29 - A senior Iranian official says superpowers have failed to advance their personal agendas in Iraq, emphasizing that Iran and Turkey should help the neighboring Arab state protect its borders against destabilizing acts.