Iran urges international support for Iraq in fight on terrorism
A senior Iranian diplomat has called on the international community to support Iraq in the fight against terrorist groups wreaking havoc in the Arab country.
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Iranian deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs, made the remark in a Saturday meeting with Yan Kubish, the UN special envoy for Iraq, who is in the Iranian capital, Tehran, to hold talks with senior Iranian officials.
Amir-Abdollahian also underlined the need for global support for Iraq’s national unity and territorial integrity, expressing the Islamic Republic’s opposition to the partition of the Arab country.
“We are opposed to ideas which view Iraq’s disintegration as a political solution [to the conflict in the Arab country], and we consider this approach as a violation of Iraq’s security and stability,” Amir-Abdollahian said.
The UN envoy, for his part, delivered a report about the current situation in Iraq and said Iraq needs national unity as well as the constructive contribution of all regional and international players in order to overcome the current crisis in the country.
Iraq has been the scene of violence since the summer of 2014 when the Daesh terrorist group seized control of some territories west and north of the Arab country.
The Takfiri group has carried out terrorist attacks and committed heinous acts of violence in the Arab country.
Controversial US Congress bill
A controversial US Congress bill, the draft of which was released in April, proposed the division of Iraq into three states and allows the Kurdish forces and the Sunni tribesmen to be armed directly without Baghdad’s approval.
The bill stipulated that 25 to 60 percent of the USD 715-million aid money allegedly allocated to Iraq in its war against Daesh will be directly supplied to Sunni and Kurdish forces.
The controversial bill has been met with opposition from Iraqi politicians, including members of the parliament, as well as religious leaders.
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