A senior Iranian security official urged Iraq on Tuesday to expel Kurdish-Iranian opposition groups from Iraqi Kurdistan or expect Tehran to take "preventative measures" against them, Iranian state media reported.
Iran has in the past shelled armed Kurdish opposition groups located in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The country’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGCs) has also conducted terrorist acts against some top members of these Kurdish opposition groups.
"We call on the Iraqi government to take more serious action to expel these groups from Iraqi Kurdistan so that Iran does not have to take preventative measures against...these armed terrorists," said Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's top national security body, the state news agency IRNA reported.
Shamkhani made the remarks at a meeting with visiting Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein.
There was no immediate response from the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq.
Last week, a senior member of the leadership committee of Kurdistan Democratic Party-of Iran (PDK-I), Musa Babakhani, was assassinated in the capital of Kurdistan region, Erbil, allegedly by the US-designated terrorist group of IRGCs.
