Iran official gives alarming insight into Iraq partitioning
NOVANEWS
By Press TV
Mohsen Rezaei, the former commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and the current secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council
A senior Iranian official has called on Iraqi Kurdish leaders to forgo a planned referendum for secession, warning that a possible breakup of the Arab country could have grave consequences for the security of the region.
The warning by Mohsen Rezaei during a meeting with Iraqi journalists in Baghdad Sunday night came as the date drew nearer for the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq to hold the plebiscite on September 25.
“Iraq is a well-known nation and a member of the United Nations with international borders, and its breakup is a very wrong thing, because the disintegration of the country would be the startin...