Iran gives Iraq several days to fully enforce deal on disarming terrorists: Top commander

A top Iranian military commander said the country has given Iraq several more days to fully implement a March agreement to relocate and disarm anti-Iran groups operating from the Arab country’s Kurdistan region, stressing that all terrorist groups in the region must be disarmed.

Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri, the Chief of General Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces, said the March agreement stipulated that these groups be disarmed by September 19 but this has not happened yet.  

“What happened during this six-month respite was that [they] just distanced a bit from the borders of our country,” he said while thanking the Iraqi government for its efforts to disarm the separatists.

He was speaking on the sidelines of a Friday military parade marking the beginning of the National Holy Defense Week.

“The president said that the armed forces give [them] a few days. We will wait for several days and we will send observer teams to this region to see if the disarming is completed or not. After that, we decide what to do,” he said.

General Baqeri stressed all the terrorist groups should be disarmed and relocated.

“The president said separatist terrorists’ armed forces should not be present in the Kurdistan region and all of Iraq. These terrorists should be fully disarmed and get expelled from Iraq,” he said.