KRG refuses to hand over Kurdish opponents to Iran
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) won’t hand over any member of the opposition parties to the Iranian authorities, spokesperson Safin Dizayee said yesterday. “We refuse to extradite the Iranian dissidents in the region, who have been identified by the United Nations as refugees,” Dizayee told Iraqi News Agency (INA), stressing that the KRG “must respect the international law protecting refugees”. Those groups, Diyazee added, have been in the Kurdistan region and Iraq since the beginning of 1980s under agreements made with the former Iraqi regime. He called on the Iranian Kurdish opposition groups “not to use the Kurdistan region as a base to attack the security and stability of the neighbouring countries.” Read: Kurdish militants kill 10 Iran Guards at Iraqi border post “We believe the … Continue reading KRG refuses to hand over Kurdish opponents to Iran
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