ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A senior Iranian official on Friday issued a stark warning to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), threatening that "all facilities" could be targeted "on a massive scale" if Iranian Kurdish opposition parties based in the Region enter Iran.
The Iranian Supreme Leader’s representative on Iran’s Defense Council, Ali Akbar Ahmadian, said on Friday that Iran has so far focused only on US and Israeli bases in the region, as well as opposition political parties operating within the Kurdistan Region.
"Should their continued presence and plotting be permitted, or should these groups or [Zionist] regime elements enter the borders of the Islamic Republic through the Region, all facilities of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq...will be targeted on a massive scale," Ahmadian warned, as cited by Fars news agency, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)
Ahmadian also emphasized that friendly relations and the support of the Islamic Republic for the Kurdistan Region during difficult days will come to an end, he warned.
"The Islamic Republic’s friendly relations and unwavering support for the Kurdistan Region during difficult times, such as the [Islamic State] ISIS attack, will cease," Ahmadian added.
Ahmadian's remarks come amid reports about a CIA plan to arm and support Iranian Kurdish opposition parties based in the Kurdistan Region to launch ground operations into the predominantly Kurdish western Iran (Rojhelat) to fight the Islamic Republic.