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Iran’s top soldier blames Israel for Kurdish independence vote
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIran’s top soldier, armed forces chief of staff Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, accuses Israel of fomenting yesterday’s Kurdish independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan.
According to the regime-linked Tasnim news agency, Bagheri told Iranian Intelligence Ministry staff on Monday that, in the outlet’s words, “the Zionist regime of Israel and the global arrogance [usually a reference to the US] are behind the referendum in Iraq’s Kurdistan.”
Bagheri “blamed the Zionist regime of Israel for orchestrating a plot to hold the independence referendum,” Tasnim explains.
Kurdistan’s neighboring regional powers Iran and Turkey oppose Kurdish independence, fearing it could spark separatist movements among their own large Kurdish minorities.
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