TEHRAN, September 28 - Iran does not place any value on the self-proclaimed sovereignty of any party and group over northern Iraqi territories, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces said, stressing that Tehran recognizes only a unified Iraq with the current legal common borders.
TEHRAN, September 28 - The military brass of Iran and Iraq have met and held talks amid a controversial referendum in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region.
TEHRAN, September 27 -The independence referendum in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region, which was held in defiance of international calls to scrap it, continues to draw criticism from governments around the world.
TEHRAN, September 27 - A top US general says Iran has complied with the terms of the 2015 nuclear agreement, warning Washington that leaving the landmark deal will have harmful consequences for the US.
TEHRAN, September 26 - Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami said the country is against any change in geographical borders in the Middle Eastern countries.
TEHRAN, September 26 - The United States says it is “deeply disappointed” by the Iraqi Kurdistan’s “unilateral” independence referendum, adding it would increase “hardships” for people living in the region.
TEHRAN, September 25 - Iraqi army has commenced major military drills with Turkish military along the common border after a highly controversial referendum on independence was held in the Arab country’s Kurdish region in open defiance of the central government in Baghdad.
TEHRAN, September 25 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Ankara will seal its border with the Iraqi Kurdistan Region over a contentious independence referendum the semi-autonomous region held on Monday, threatening the Kurdish leaders with blocking their key oil exports.
TEHRAN, September 25 - A senior Iranian official says a highly controversial referendum on independence of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region is a new US-Israeli plot in the Middle East to partition the country, warning that the Kurds will suffer as a result of the plan.
TEHRAN, September 25 - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin said that Iran attaches great importance to territorial integrity in the region as well as no change in boundaries.
TEHRAN, September 25 - Iraqi lawmakers have demanded deployment of government troops to areas disputed with Kurds amid rising tensions between the central government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government over a controversial independence referendum.
TEHRAN, September 25 - Voting started on Monday in an independence referendum organized by the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, despite regional and international opposition that it would stoke instability and violence across the Middle East.
TEHRAN, September 25 - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a phone call with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi stressed protecting Iraq’s territorial integrity, national unity, peace and stability.
TEHRAN, September 25 -Iraq’s Oil Minister Jabbar al-Luaibi says an agreement will be signed with Iran soon to jointly invest in two oil fields shared between the two countries.
TEHRAN, September 25 - Amaq Agency has released a few photos depicting ISIS militants launching a guided missile towards a Kurdish-held building in Raqqa’s city centre.
TEHRAN, September 25 - Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) announced that the country has closed its airspace to all aircraft operating flights to and from Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region at the request of the Arab country’s central government.
TEHRAN, September 25 - Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region head is holding an independence referendum despite strong objections from the central government in Baghdad and in defiance of urgent calls from the international community to scrap the vote plan.
TEHRAN, September 24 - There are conflicting reports as to whether a referendum on possible secession of the Iraqi Kurdistan on Monday will go ahead as planned after several regional officials warned the vote could have serious consequences.