Iranian chief of staff of Armed forces Major General Bagheri and Iraqi Army Chief of Staff Lt. General Othman Al-Ghanemi: we will Not accept any changes in the geography of Iraq
Top General: Iran Recognizes Only Unified Iraq
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – 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.
“We do not regard any sovereignty for the parties and groups in North Iraq, and this is a common belief held by the Armed Forces of the both sides (Iran and Iraq),” Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri said in a joint press conference with his Iraqi counterpart Major General Othman al-Ghanmi, held in Tehran on Wednesday evening.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran recognizes integrated and unified Iraq, and as the Iraqi prime minister has said, Iran’s common frontier with Iraq are the existing legal borders,” the Iranian general noted.
Both Tehran and Baghdad disapprove of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region’s independence referendum, Major General Baqeri added, stressing that Iran does not agree with any change in Iraq’s geography or with the secession of any region from that country.
He also noted that he has reaffirmed Iran’s commitment to supporting the Iraqi government, Army, and the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) -also known as Hashd al-Shaabi- in the meeting with the visiting Iraqi general.
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