Iran renews ultimatum for Iraq to disarm Kurdish opposition groups

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : "The potential of those groups importing arms or their ability to weaponize some of the demonstrations inside Iran using their position in Iraqi Kurdistan is considered the most important factor in dealing with them.
51% : At the same time, Iran is convinced that Israel is using the Kurdistan Region to destabilize its regime.
50% : Mohammed Nazif Qaderi, a senior member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), the biggest of the Iranian Kurdish opposition groups based in Iraqi Kurdistan, told Al-Monitor, "It is true that we have weapons.
48% : In March 2023, Iran and Iraq signed a security agreement, the details of which were never formally disclosed.
46% : The KDPI has at least three bases inside KDP-controlled territory, but it's generally accepted that the former does not pose any meaningful threat to Iran.Nor does Komala, which has even fewer fighters and is based in areas controlled by the KDP's coalition partner and biggest rival, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), and where Iran enjoys greater influence.
43% : An Iranian Kurdish peshmerga member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) walks past a graffiti-covered wall as he inspects damage at the party headquarters following an Iranian cross-border attack in the town of Koye (Koysinjaq), in the east of the Erbil district in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on Nov. 26, 2022.
41% : Another Iranian Kurdish politician speaking not for attribution said Iraqi Kurdish officials had already curtailed some of their activities, including moving their men away from their mountain outposts overlooking Iran.
37% : Although both the KDPI and Komala say they have no desire to secede from Iran, Teheran believes otherwise.
36% : "We promised KRG (Kurdistan Regional Government) authorities that we would not send our fighters into Iran and in fact, we haven't," he told Al-Monitor.
35% : In July, Iran threatened to use military force should Baghdad fail to comply with its demands as it did in September and November last year, striking Iranian Kurdish parties deep inside Iraqi Kurdistan with ballistic missiles and suicide drones and assassinating their leaders in urban centers.
34% : Iran warned Monday that it would not extend a September deadline for Iraq to disarm and evacuate Iranian Kurdish opposition groups based in camps within Iraqi territory, calling their presence a "dark stain" on otherwise friendly relations and raising fears of further Iranian attacks.
34% : Even before the mass protests, Iran periodically attacked its Kurdish foes inside Iraq, though unlike Turkey it does not have thousands of forces deployed inside Iraqi Kurdistan.
32% : The accord is believed to have included provisions that Iranian Kurdish fighters would be prevented from entering Iranian territory and moved away from the borders where they levy "taxes" on smugglers carrying alcohol, cigarettes and electronic goods into Iran.

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