Tehran Warns Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government

President Donald J. Trump expressed his desire to see oppositional Iranian Kurdish militants based in Iraq, or perhaps the government of Iraq’s Kurdistan region, intervene in the ongoing U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran. In response, Iranian Brigadier General Ali Akbar Ahmadian, former Supreme National Security Council secretary and the late supreme leader’s representative to the Supreme Defense Council, warned of retaliatory measures.

• March 6: Brigadier General Ali Akbar Ahmadian was quoted by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-affiliated Tasnim News Agency saying:
  • “We remind our friends and brothers in the Kurdistan region of Iraq that so far only the bases of the United States and Israel and separatist groups in the region have been targeted. However, if the continued presence, plotting, or entry of these groups or elements of the regime through the region into the borders of the Islamic Republic is allowed, then all facilities in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, as the rear base of these groups and the regime, will be widely targeted. Friendly relations and the generous support of the Islamic Republic in the Kurdistan region during difficult days – such as the attack by ISIS – will also be halted.”

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