Iran Targets Israel’s Regional Allies

In recent weeks, a conference was held in Erbil, the capital city of Iraqi Kurdistan, calling upon Iraq to join the Abraham Accords and recognize the State of Israel. The Iraqi government has issued arrest warrants for the attendees of this conference, yet many Kurds remain steadfast supporters of Israel. However, Iran does not like this at all.          

 “During the last years, Iran’s regime had always denied the existence of the Kurdish opposition and especially the PDKI to show that these parties have no place among Kurdish people anymore and they cannot be a threat to the regime, but this time they had to confess to the reality that these parties are a real danger to the government and it was seen that they utilize their highest degree of political and military power to suppress these opposition parties and also put pressure on the Iraqi government to expel these parties from Iraqi soil”, said Mohammad Saleh Qaderi, representative of PDKI in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan (KRI).

He then mentioned the different ways Iran`s regime attacks: “Aside from utilizing artillery and missiles, the Iranian regime has now started to use modern weapons such as drones and used them as suicide bombers in its recent attacks on our positions, but fortunately we had not only no casualties, but we destroyed some drones and this is another failure for the regime.”

Qaderi believes that this is not a new strategy, but the continuous defeated politics of the regime towards the Kurds, who like Azerbaijan are also aligned with Israel. Due to what is happening now in the Middle East, Qaderi claimed: “We saw that there is a security and political vacancy and if an agreement between the great powers such as the US, Britain, France and Russia does not occur, it is natural that Iran’s regime will use this opportunity to do its plans. So it is very important at this point for the Kurdish opposition to be united.”

Qaderi insists on the fact that Kurdish parties are political rather than military: “The Kurdish parties are totally far from what military terrorist forces like Hezbollah, Hamas and Taliban are. We have legally just demands based on human rights and till they are accepted by the regime, it is very natural that we defend our people. We hope that our struggle for freedom and peace become an example for other minorities inside Iran to be united and overthrow this barbaric regime.”