TEHRAN, August 5, YJC - Authorities in the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan have opposed exporting oil from the northern fields of Kirkuk via Iran, marking their first escalation of a spat which has started with secessionist calls.
TEHRAN, July 17, YJC - A senior Iranian official has warned that a plan by Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region to hold an independence referendum will weaken the entire Arab country.
TEHRAN, July 17, YJC - The prime minister of the autonomous Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, Nechirvan Barzani, underlined that Tehran can “play a positive role” in resolving disputes between the Arab country’s central government and the KRG.
TEHRAN, April 3, YJC - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi slammed a recent move to hoist Kurdish flags over government buildings in Iraq’s northern city of Kirkuk as a measure which escalates tensions.
ANKARA, Jan 27, 2015 (AFP) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his country opposes the idea of a Kurdish-controlled autonomous government in northern Syria, local media reported on Tuesday.
Tehran, YJC. Iran has advised Iraq in its fight against ISIL Takfiri terrorists and has provided the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region with similar help, says a senior Iranian official.
Seizing on the mayhem in Iraq, Israel's prime minister on June 29 called for the establishment of an independent Kurdistan as part of a broader alliance with moderate forces across the region, and asserted that Israel would have to maintain a long-term military presence in the West Bank to keep a jihadi juggernaut from powering its way to the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
It will be "almost impossible" for Iraq to return to how it was before recent sweeping gains by jihadist fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), the prime minister of the Kurdistan region warned on Tuesday.