Türkiye helped foil plan to divide Iran: Araghchi
Türkiye played a key role in preventing armed Iranian Kurdish groups based in Iraq from opening a new front in the war against Iran, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said.
In an interview aired by Iran’s Majaraa Media on July 19, Araghchi said Ankara had taken a firm stand against what he described as a U.S.-Israeli plan to divide Iran and provoke internal unrest.
Araghchi claimed U.S. President Donald Trump contacted figures in Iraq’s Kurdistan region on the fourth day of the war over a possible ground operation against Iran.
After learning of the alleged plan, Araghchi said he spoke with Iraqi Kurdish leaders Masoud Barzani and Bafel Talabani, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.
