Iranian President: Iraq’s start to disarm {opposition} groups is a positive step to ensure security, 30 SEPT

 Iranian President: Iraq’s start to disarm {opposition} groups is a positive step to ensure security

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi announced that Iraq’s start disarming armed groups opposed to his country is “a positive step to ensure security.”

Raisi said that “there is no war in our military doctrine, but we maintain our military readiness with a defensive approach and our armed forces have achieved deterrence capability and war is no longer among the enemy’s options.”

He pointed out that “the presence of foreign forces in the region is worrying for its countries and is the biggest problem in our region,” stressing that “there is no place for war in our strategy, but maintaining the policy of defensive military readiness is imperative.”

Raisi met Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani two days ago in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meetings.

During the meeting, Al-Sudani stressed that “Iraq will never allow its territory to be exploited to attack neighboring countries, just as it refuses to prejudice its security and sovereignty, and that all problems with the regional neighborhood must be subject to dialogue in order to reach radical solutions to crises.”

It is noteworthy that Iraq and Iran signed in Baghdad on March 19, 2023, a joint security report between the two countries, which was signed on the Iraqi side by National Security Advisor Qassim Al-Araji, and on the Iranian side by Ali Shamkhani.

The minutes include coordination in protecting the common border between the two countries, and strengthening joint cooperation in several security fields, according to an Iraqi official statement.