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| KDPI looks to form alliances to counter Iran threat |
| 2016-07-04 |
| [RUDAW.NET] The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) is looking to build alliances with national, regional, and international allies in the face of threats from the Iranian government in Tehran. "PDKI [KDPI] has embarked on an international campaign to find allies in the Middle East and beyond to counter the threats from the Islamist regime in Iran," reads a statement from the organization published on Saturday, responding a senior Iranian military official who vowed to "crush" KDPI threats in the Kurdistan Region. The KDPI, whose headquarters are based in the Kurdistan Region, and the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have clashed several times in Kurdish areas of northern Iran since mid-June. On June 26, Iran took the fight internationally, firing shells across the border into the Kurdistan Region on the pretext that KDPI bases were located in the area. A senior Iranian military commander vowed to crush the KDPI, regardless of what borders were in the way. "I warn the officials of northern Iraq, adhere to their commitments as the Islamic Theocratic Republicwill crush threats regardless of geographical considerations," said Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, second-in-command of Iran’s revolutionary guards, speaking at Friday prayers in Tehran University, according to the Tehran Times. The Kurdish government has warned the KDPI, and all Iranian and Turkish opposition groups, against using Kurdistan Region territories for launching attacks on its neighbors and insisted that they must respect Erbil’s international relations with these countries. |
| Posted by:Fred |