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Turkish Envoy: Iraqi Kurdistan Referendum to Foment New Tensions in Region

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Turkish Ambassador to Tehran Reza Hakan Tekin warned that the recent independence referendum in the Iraqi Kurdistan region will create new tensions and instabilities in the region and impede serious fight against the terrorist groups. “Iraq has for years been facing serious instabilities. The central government has in recent months been able to take long strides in the fight against the terrorist groups, but now the main concern is that the referendum will create new tensions, gaps and instabilities”, Hakan Tekin said on Tuesday. “The new instabilities will make the war on terrorist groups more difficult”, he added. Hakan Tekin also warned of Iraqi Kurdistan region’s difficult situation after holding the referendum after the boycotts imposed by its neighbors, and said countries like Iran and Turkey will not be harmed by such embargos but it is the Iraqi Kurdistan region which is economically dependent on the neighboring states.

 

Iran’s Zarif to visit Qatar amid Gulf crisis

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will visit Qatar on Monday, officials said, for talks on relations between Tehran and Doha that have caused tensions in the Gulf. Zarif held talks with officials in Oman Monday before heading to Doha on his first visit to Qatar since Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt cut ties with Qatar in June. The four countries accuse Qatar of backing extremism and fostering ties with their Shiite rival Iran, charges that Doha denies. Oman, a tiny sultanate across the water from Iran, has traditionally had closer ties with Tehran than its neighbors and has maintained relations with Qatar throughout the crisis. Zarif’s talks in Muscat covered “energy, the economy and transit” and the potential “transfer of Iranian gas through the Sultanate of Oman to India”, according to the official Oman News Agency. Oman and Iran in 2014 agreed to build an underwater pipeline to pump Iranian gas to the Omani port city of Sohar.

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