The Kurdistan Regional Government denies allegations of arming Kurdish parties to send them to Iran.
The Kurdistan Regional Government on Thursday denied reports that the region had armed Kurdish opposition parties and sent them into Iranian territory, stressing that these claims were “completely unfounded”.
The spokesman for the regional government, Peshwa Hawrami, said in a statement received by Shafaq News Agency, “The reports that speak about the role of the Kurdistan Region and the allegations that claim that we are part of a plan to arm and send Kurdish opposition parties into Iranian territory are completely false, and we deny them in their entirety.”
He added that these accusations are “being deliberately and maliciously disseminated,” stressing that the Kurdistan Regional Government and its political parties “are not part of any campaign to expand the scope of war and tensions in the region.”
Hormani noted that the region calls for “peace and stability in the region,” expressing his strong condemnation of “the cowardly attacks targeting the Kurdistan Region.”
He also called on the federal government and the international community to intervene to stop these attacks and to work to protect the region’s land and people.
Yesterday, Western reports spoke of Iranian Kurdish militants entering Iran from Iraqi Kurdistan in preparation for a ground operation in western Iran, but an opposition Kurdish official denied the validity of those reports. Aziz Ahmed, deputy director of the Kurdistan Regional Government Presidency’s office, confirmed that none of the Iraqi Kurds had crossed the border during the ongoing events in the region.
Shafaq.com