The top adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Ali Akbar Velayati, on Tuesday told Tehran Times that the U.S. and the “Zionist regime of Israel” were behind Kurdish President Masoud Barzani’s decision to hold …
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on September 28 that he wants to hold a trilateral summit with Iranian and Iraqi leaders to coordinate their response to the Kurdish vote for independence in Iraq, Hurriyet Daily …
Iranian Kurds celebrated as Kurds in Iraq held their historic referendum on independence despite the Iranian government deploying armored vehicles and jets into the Kurdish provinces, the Rudaw reports. The event received minimal media coverage, …
The foreign minister of Bahrain claims that the Iranian regime is not only a threat to the region, but also to the international community as a whole. In an exclusive interview with Al Arabiya TV …
Tehran vowed on Tuesday to stand alongside Baghdad and Ankara against the outcome of an independence referendum staged by Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq, a day after thousands of Iranian Kurds marched in support of …
Iran’s foreign ministry said Monday that its border with Iraqi Kurdistan remained open despite its independence referendum, reversing an earlier statement, Al Arabiya reports. “The land border between Iran and the Kurdistan region of Iraq is …
Iranian foreign ministry said Monday that it closed down its border gates to the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in response to a referendum on independence, Haartez reports. “At the request of the Iraqi government, we …
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard conducted a drill Sunday and closed its airspace to flights taking off from Iraq’s Kurdish region following an Iraqi request in the country’s northwestern Kurdish region just ahead of Iraqi Kurds voting in an …
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani took the stage on Wednesday and proceeded to deliver a lengthy speech almost entirely devoted to blasting U.S. President Donald Trump. Without actually naming Trump, Rouhani said that yesterday, words were …
Iran will close the border gates it has with the Kurdistan Region, withdraw its diplomatic mission and intervene militarily outside of its border with Kurdistan if the Kurdish leaders decide to go ahead with the …
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