{"id":44955,"date":"2026-03-31T14:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/44955\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T14:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:11:06","slug":"iraq-rejects-arming-iranian-opposition-denies-armed-activity-on-its-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/44955\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq rejects arming Iranian opposition, denies armed activity on its soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-03-31T13:50:32+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Baghdad<\/p>\n<p>Iraq&#8217;s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign<br \/>\nMinister Fuad Hussein stated on Tuesday that Baghdad has not armed Iranian<br \/>\nopposition groups present on Iraqi soil, reaffirming the government&#8217;s rejection<br \/>\nof US and Israeli military operations against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with Al-Arabiya<br \/>\nAl-Hadath television, Hussein said that mutual strikes on Iraqi territory \u2014conducted<br \/>\nby both Iran and the United States\u2014 have effectively drawn Iraq into the war<br \/>\nwithout a formal government decision to that effect. He attributed the<br \/>\nescalation to weak internal control over armed factions, noting that Iraq&#8217;s<br \/>\narmed groups do not hold the authority to declare war or peace on behalf of the<br \/>\nstate.<\/p>\n<p>Hussein denied the existence of any armed<br \/>\nactivity by Iranian opposition groups operating from Iraqi soil, stating that<br \/>\nthese factions are present in camps in a refugee capacity. The Iranian Kurdish<br \/>\nopposition groups \u2014exile parties including the Kurdistan Democratic Party of<br \/>\nIran, the Komala Party, and the Kurdistan Freedom Party\u2014 have maintained camps<br \/>\nin the Kurdistan Region of Iraq for decades.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Report\/Iraqi-Iranian-Security-MoU-rekindles-a-decade-of-border-deals-and-old-controversies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more: Iraqi\u2013Iranian Security MoU rekindles a decade of border deals\u2014and old controversies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tehran has long <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Kurdistan\/Four-rockets-hit-Iranian-opposition-site-near-Erbil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">accused<\/a> these groups of crossing<br \/>\nthe border to attack its forces or of inciting unrest in its Kurdish-populated<br \/>\nareas.<\/p>\n<p>Qubad Talabani, Deputy Prime Minister of the<br \/>\nKurdistan Regional Government (KRG), confirmed in an interview with Agence<br \/>\nFrance-Presse last week that the Kurdish authorities had seen no effort by any<br \/>\nUS body to arm Iranian opposition groups in Kurdistan, adding that<br \/>\ndiscussions held with the United States, Iran, and local groups had made clear<br \/>\nthat there was currently no plan to deploy these factions inside Iran. Talabani<br \/>\nalso stated that the KRG had communicated to all opposition groups that it<br \/>\nwould not permit them to serve as a frontline force, and that this position had<br \/>\nbeen conveyed to all parties involved.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Iraq, including the Kurdistan Region and<br \/>\nIran, signed a security agreement to secure shared borders and curtail the<br \/>\narmed activity of Iranian Kurdish opposition groups operating from Iraqi<br \/>\nterritory. The deal has come under strain following repeated strikes on Iranian<br \/>\nKurdish opposition camps in the Region. At the start of the current conflict on Feb.25, Talabani<br \/>\nsaid Tehran had asked Iraqi Kurdistan to do what it could to protect the shared<br \/>\nborder, a request &#8220;the KRG intended to honor out of respect for<br \/>\nbilateral relations.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-03-31T13:50:32+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Iraq&#8217;s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[152,18729,34,94,18728,18730,153],"class_list":{"0":"post-44955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-breaking","9":"tag-denies-armed-activity-on-its-soil","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-iraq","12":"tag-iraq-rejects-arming-iranian-opposition","13":"tag-opposition-parties","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116324196919802000","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}