️️🇮🇶🇮🇷 Iran's Kurdistan Democratic Party rejected Tehran's demands to disarm and abandon its struggle, with a senior official telling Rodeo English that the party "will not entertain" a laying down of arms, which it says is intended to protect Kurds inside Iran from oppression.

️️🇮🇶🇮🇷 Iran's Kurdistan Democratic Party rejected Tehran's demands to disarm and abandon its struggle, with a senior official telling Rodeo English that the party "will not entertain" a laying down of arms, which it says is intended to protect Kurds inside Iran from oppression.

Ghadri said that neither Baghdad nor the KRG had informed the party of any decision to expel it, stressing that the KDPI respects Iraqi sovereignty and the Kurdistan Region and will not use their territory for military operations.

An Iraqi source who attended Monday's security committee meeting denied reports of an agreement to deport or hand over the groups, saying the issue was not discussed. The denial followed Iran's ambassador in Baghdad claiming that the two countries had agreed to deport the groups or hand them over to Tehran. The Iranian Kurdish groups Komala and PAK also said they had not received such a notification.