Iran expressed its unease with a possible cross-border operation into northern Iraq by the Turkish military, daily Milliyet reported yesterday. “A military operation will create new justification for the invaders and this could have very negative affects”, Isfendiar Rahim Mesai, the Iranian vice president said in an interview. | Especially on our own Kurds, who might get ideas .... |
| ... golly gosh, who would ever encourage that ... |
The Turkish military insists on authorization from Parliament to conduct an operation in Iraq but the government has rejected the notion.
“Our region is very sensitive nowadays, the presence of invaders causes a security deficit. To provide more stability, we should give a chance to the Iraqi administration,” Mesai said. He also said Iran suffered a lot from the terrorist organizations.
| especially the one in charge of the country |
“All the countries in the region should cooperate to end these destructive activities by the terror organizations. This cooperation can also be carried out by armed forces.”
| Said that without his lips falling off? Wowzers, he's good. |
Meanwhile, Nechirvan Barzani, prime minister of the semi-autonomous regional government in northern Iraq, in an interview with Al-Jazeera, argued that any military operation into Iraq would not yield a positive result. “The only way is to find a political solution,” he said.
Claiming that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is Turkey's internal problem, Barzani reiterated that the terrorists are located in a wide area in northern Iraq and in Turkey. “We don't give logistic support to the PKK. These press reports are false,” said Barzani.
According to the Web site of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), Pukmedia, the Shiites are also against a cross-border operation into Iraq. A group of delegates led by Beha Ereci, who are in close contact with Shiite leader Muqtada al Sadr, paid a visit to Suleimanya to meet officials of the PUK. “We are against Turkey's operation in the region because Kurdistan is a part of Iraq. We can't accept the interference of any neighboring country into the internal affairs of Iraq and Kurdistan,” Ereci said. | You're not getting the oil and we're not giving the Kurds further motivation to create their own country. |
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