TEHRAN, September 26 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned Massoud Barzani, the president of Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), that the current push for the independence of the KRG could spark an “ethnic war” in northern Iraq.
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 - Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri said that I areal is behind plots on holding Iraq’s Kurdistan Region Government (KRG) referendum.
TEHRAN, September 26 - Iraq’s Prime Minister announced that Baghdad has no negotiation with Kurdistan region after the illegal referendum held in the region to separate it from Iraq.
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 - 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 Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said that any move against ‘territorial integrity’ of Iraqi government is wrong.
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.
TEHRAN, September 20 - Hundreds of people in Iraq’s northeastern city of Sulaymaniyah have staged a rally to voice their opposition to Kurdistan region’s upcoming referendum on seceding from the Arab country.
TEHRAN, September 17 - Secretary of Iranian Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani said that the country only recognizes Iraqi federal government.
TEHRAN, September 17 -Britain is opposed to a planned referendum for the independence of the Iraqi Kurdistan region, saying it could risk instability in the Middle East at the time of a fight against terrorism.
TEHRAN, September 16 -Iraqi Kurdish legislators of the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region have approved a plan to hold a referendum on independence from Baghdad later this month, a contentious move spearheaded by regional President Masoud Barzani that has faced bitter opposition from the central government and several other countries, including neighboring Iran, Turkey and Syria.
TEHRAN, September 14 - Iraqi lawmakers have slammed a visit by the leader of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region to the Iraqi oil-rich city of Kirkuk.