Iran’s new judiciary chief Ebrahim Raesi threatened Kurdish opposition parties from any political activities inside the country, upon his arrival in the Kurdish city of Sanandaj on Thursday.
“We do not tolerate insecurities at our borders,” Raesi warned. “Enemies are looking at Kurdistan with greedy eyes, but we will make those eyes blind.”
Tehran has been involving for decades in fighting Kurdish opposition parties, despite the popularity of Kurdish movement among the Iranian Kurds.
The Islamic government have deployed heavy artillery in the Kurdish border town and cities with the Iraqi Kurdistan, where the Kurdish opposition parties are based in exile.
In his one-day visit, Raesi met with the families of local IRGC members who were killed in the regional conflicts.
He also justified the systematic killings of Kolbars, Kurdish porters carrying goods across the Iran-Kurdistan Region border, by calling it “cross-border smuggling.”
A day earlier, IRGC commander-in-chief Hossein Salami had visited the Kurdish border town of Piranshahr, using the same threatening language against Kurdish political parties.
“Kurdistan is the gateway for enemies to penetrate Iran, and the enemies want to control Kurds, so they would be able to separate Kurdistan and to breakdown Iran into pieces. But Kurdistan borders are under our control,” he said.
Kurdistan is Iran’s most militarized region and one of the poorest throughout the country in term of service and job opportunities.
