Tehran and Baghdad reach a deal to disarm and relocate Iranian dissident groups based in north Iraq

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% :Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani came to power last year via a coalition of Iranian-backed parties and is seen as close to Iran, although he has also attempted to build ties with the United States and Turkey.
50% :Different Iranian dissident groups in Iraq are aligned with each of the two main Iraqi Kurdish parties -- the Kurdistan Democratic Party, with its seat of power in Irbil, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party, whose stronghold is in Suleimaniyah -- and are at odds with each other as well as with Iran.
47% : BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iran and Iraq have reached an agreement to disarm members of Iranian Kurdish dissident groups based in northern Iraq and relocate their members from their current bases, officials from the two countries said Monday.
30% :Iran has periodically launched strikes targeting members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Iran, or KDPI, and other Iranian Kurdish dissident groups based in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region near the border with Iran.

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