{"id":968,"date":"2017-10-06T14:20:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T14:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/zarif-hopes-kurdistan-region-will-follow-talabanis-path\/"},"modified":"2017-10-06T14:20:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T14:20:40","slug":"zarif-hopes-kurdistan-region-will-follow-talabanis-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/zarif-hopes-kurdistan-region-will-follow-talabanis-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Zarif hopes Kurdistan region will follow Talabani\u2019s path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madaresharghi..com\">madaresharghi<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"lide\">Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif denounced a recent referendum held in Iraq\u2019s Kurdistan region as a \u201cstrategic\u201d mistake, expressing hope that all sides in the region would return to the same path of the late Iraq\u2019s former president, Jalal Talabani.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"70\">\n<p>\n\tSpeaking on the sidelines of the funeral procession of Talabani in Sulaymaniyah on Friday, Zarif reiterated Tehran\u2019s opposition to the secession vote recently held by Iraq\u2019s semiautonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Tasnim News Agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHowever, he said, \u201cThe Islamic Republic of Iran is an everlasting friend of the Iraqi people, including the Kurds of this country, and does not consider the strategic mistakes made by certain individuals as those of the Iraqi Kurdish people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHe further expressed hope that all sides in the Kurdistan region would return to the same path of the late Talabani, who was the symbol of Iraq\u2019s unity and territorial integrity.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHeading a high-ranking delegation, Zarif arrived in Sulaymaniyah on Friday to participate in the funeral service for the late secretary general of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFormer president of Iraq was in a coma when he died in a German hospital on Tuesday after suffering a long-time illness following a brain stroke in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe 83-year-old Talabani was the first non-Arab president of Iraq, elected in 2005, two years after the US-led invasion which toppled the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTalabani was president for nine years until 2014 and widely respected as a mediator between Shias, Sunnis and Kurds.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Iraqi Kurdistan region went ahead with its plan to hold the referendum on September 25 although Iraq\u2019s neighbors and countries in the Middle East, including Iran and Turkey, had voiced opposition to such a move and supported the Baghdad central government.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>madaresharghi Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif denounced a recent referendum held in Iraq\u2019s Kurdistan region as a \u201cstrategic\u201d mistake, expressing hope that all sides in the region would return to the same path of the late Iraq\u2019s former president, Jalal Talabani. 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