Ali Shamkhani, head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani met on Monday in Tehran to discuss developments in the region and the future of Iraq and the Region’s possible cooperation with central government in Baghdad. Shamkhani believed that Takfirist terrorists now roaming parts of Iraq and Syria posed a real and grave threat to regional and global security, which should be seriously addressed by close cooperation of countries in the region as their first agenda,” he said.
Shamkahni denounced the double-standards of the powers claiming fighting terrorism, which he said was the bane of the attempts to remove the scourge of terrorism; “while the US officials have purportedly emphasized, through hollow propaganda, that they would protect KRG against possible ISIL threat, no effective measure has been taken against the terrorist group’s edging of the Kurdistan borders,” he added.
The official then emphasized Iran's commitment to support “its Kurd brethren” which he illustrated with an example “Iran’s support for KRG in fighting ISIL,” which would otherwise have brought about the fall of Erbil.
Shamkhani told Barzani that unity of Kurd political parties and attempts to come to an understanding and prevent further widening of the gaps in the political architecture of the Region was inevitable; “any tension between political parties of Kurdistan would push to aside of the major issue of fighting terrorism,” he underlined.
Barzani for his part appreciated Islamic Republic of Iran’s ‘unwavering support for the Region;’ “officials and the public in the Region would never forget Iran’s support in the critical times; the Regional Government is strongly resolved in fight against Takfirism; thanks to measures taken to curb ISIL progress to the Region, we have a good level of security inside the Region,” he said.
“We believe that a dialogue of all Kurdish parties is central to any plan to come to a détente with Iraqi central government in Baghdad; despite the issues posed by Iraqi and Syrian refugees and plummeting oil prices, the economic and social development in the Region have gone uninterrupted,” he added.
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