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Iraq's NationalSecurity Advisor Qasim al-Araji announced Sunday that a high-level jointsecurity delegation from Baghdad and Erbil will travel to Tehran to conveneunder the Iraqi-Iranian Supreme Security Committee —a body established under a2023 border security agreement committing both countries to joint borderprotection and expanded security cooperation.
Speakingalongside Kurdish Prime Minister Masrour Barzani at a joint press conference inBaghdad, al-Araji said the committee will take up attacks that struck theKurdistan Region and Iraq during recent regional hostilities involving Iran,the United States, and Israel, strikes that hit both US positions in Iraq andIranian Kurdish opposition groups operating in the region.
The 2023accord, signed in Baghdad, includes a pledge by Iraq not to allow armed groupsin the Kurdistan Region to use Iraqi territory as a launchpad for cross-borderattacks on Iran.
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