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Turkey threatened military action and Iran closed its border with Iraqi Kurdistan yesterday as a controversial independence referendum went ahead in the region.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said: “At the request of the Iraqi government, we have closed our land and air borders” with the semi-autonomous region.
He reiterated Tehran’s stance — shared by Iraq, Syria and Turkey — that the unofficial vote was “illegal and illegitimate.”
Statement from the executive committee of the Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN