Iraq Kurdistan urges Iran help against Daesh chemical attacks
Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has urged Iran’s help in fighting the rising threat of chemical attacks by the Daesh Takfiri group.
Daesh’s deployment of chemical weapons is a serious threat and we urge all our friends to help Kurds in this regard, Falah Mustafa Bakir, the head of the KRG’s Department of Foreign Relations, said in the Iraqi Kurdistan Erbil on Friday.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran has considerable experience in countering chemical attacks” and we need Tehran’s help in our battle against Takfiris, he added.
Bakir further hailed the friendly ties between Tehran and Erbil, saying the two sides are determined to boost their bilateral relations.
Back in August, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) voiced serious concern over reports that Daesh has been using chemical weapons in Iraq.
"Recent reports of possible use of chemical weapons in Iraq by non-state actors are a matter of serious concern," said The Hague-based organization in a statement.
In the same month, reports said that Daesh militants attacked Iraqi Kurdish fighters with chemical weapons, possibly chlorine or mustard gas, in the west of the city of Makhmour. The raid injured a total of 15 Kurdish forces, leaving them suffering from respiratory irritation.
The officials in Erbil also accused Takfiri terrorists of targeting Kurdish Peshmerga fighters with a projectile filled with an unknown chemical agent in June.
The Daesh militants, who currently control areas in Iraq and Syria, have been carrying out horrific acts of violence, including public decapitations, against Iraqi and Syrian communities such as Shias, Sunnis, Kurds and Christians.
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