{"id":896,"date":"2017-09-30T18:31:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T18:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/barzanis-independence-bid-strengthens-daesh-israel-iran-official\/"},"modified":"2017-09-30T18:31:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T18:31:11","slug":"barzanis-independence-bid-strengthens-daesh-israel-iran-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/barzanis-independence-bid-strengthens-daesh-israel-iran-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Barzani\u2019s independence bid strengthens Daesh, Israel: Iran official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madaresharghi..com\">madaresharghi<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"lide\">A senior Iranian official says the recent move by President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region Massoud Barzani for independence is tantamount to boosting the Daesh terrorist group and the Israeli regime.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"91\">\n<p>\n\t\u201cBarzani\u2019s independence bid means strengthening Daesh and Tel Aviv, new regional anarchism and instability,\u201d Iranian Parliament speaker&#8217;s special adviser on international affairs, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, said in a post on his Twitter account on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHe stressed the Kurdish people in Iraq could not enjoy genuine support unless the Arab country\u2019s national unity was fully supported.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cStrong support for Iraq\u2019s national unity is the real support for the Iraqi Kurds,\u201d said Amir-Abdollahian, who formerly served as Iran\u2019s deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn defiance of Iraq\u2019s stiff opposition, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) held a non-binding referendum on September 25 on secession from the central government in Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOfficial results showed 92.73 percent of voters backed the secession. Turnout was put at 72.61 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhile much of the international community, including the United Nations, the European Union and Iraq\u2019s neighbors, has opposed the referendum, Israel has been the only entity to openly support an independent Kurdish state, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu backing &#8220;the legitimate efforts of the Kurdish people to attain a state\u201d of their own.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRegion al players Iran and Turkey have opposed the Kurdish referendum in Iraq, warning that the controversial vote could lead to further instability in the entire Middle East, a region already ravaged with numerous conflicts and terror threats.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDuring a televised speech in the eastern Turkish city of Erzurum on Saturday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Israel\u2019s Mossad spy agency had played a role in the Kurdish independence referendum.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tErdogan expressed sorrow that Iraqi Kurds had acclaimed the recent independence referendum with Israeli flags.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAli Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on international affairs, said on September 26 that the KRG president was a middleman for Zionists, who seeks to implement their plans for the division of Muslim states.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cBarzani is a middleman for Zionists [whose goal is] to disintegrate Islamic countries,\u201d Velayati said, adding that in view of the bitter experience of Palestine, Muslim nations will not allow \u201ca second Israel\u201d to be created in the region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>madaresharghi A senior Iranian official says the recent move by President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region Massoud Barzani for independence is tantamount to boosting the Daesh terrorist group and the Israeli regime. \u201cBarzani\u2019s independence bid means strengthening Daesh and Tel Aviv, new regional anarchism and instability,\u201d Iranian Parliament speaker&#8217;s special adviser on international affairs, Hossein [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[639],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.7 - 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