Shafaq News-Baghdad
Iraq's NationalSecurity Adviser Qassem al-Abboudi reviewed implementation stages of the jointIraq-Iran security agreement with a Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) delegationled by Interior Minister Rebar Ahmed on Monday.
According to astatement from the National Security Advisory, implementation details andtimelines were the focus of the meeting, held at the National Security Councilheadquarters with senior security officials from both the federal governmentand the Kurdistan Region attending. The discussions followed Iraq's frameworkfor sustaining border security and stability along the Iraq-Iran frontier.
The agreement,signed in Baghdad in 2023, requires Iraq to disarm and relocate Iranian Kurdishopposition groups based in the Kurdistan Region away from the border, followinga series of Iranian missile and drone strikes targeting those factions. Ahmedpreviously confirmed the joint high committee established under the pact hadcompleted its mandate, stating the groups "no longer represent a securityor military threat along the shared border." Iraq has since closed 80bases belonging to the factions and handed over heavy weapons to Peshmergaforces.
The IranianGovernment spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani stated earlier that serious effortsare underway, with full communication between officials on both sides and clearpolitical will to see it through.
