Barazani: Iran First Country Which Armed Us to Confront Terrorism
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Kurdish President Massoud Barzani said on Tuesday that Iran was the first country to supply weapons and ammunition to Iraqi Kurdish forces when they asked for them in order to help fight extremist miliants.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran was the first state to help us... and it provided us with weapons and equipment," Barzani said at a joint news conference with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Zarif held talks with Barzani on Tuesday, acknowledging giving military assistance to Iraqi security forces but said the cooperation did not include deploying ground troops in the country.
"We have no military presence in Iraq," Zarif said. "We do have military cooperation with both the central government and the Kurds in different arenas."
Militants from the so-called "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" [ISIL] have clashed with Kurdish peshmerga fighters in recent weeks and taken control of some areas on the periphery of Iraqi Kurdistan.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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