"All the reports claiming the Iranian military presence in Iraq are not true. We emphasize that no Iranian troops are present in Iraqi Kurdistan, especially in the areas which we control. The public in Kurdistan should not believe this kind of rumors," the press service quoted a representative of the third border guard brigade, which belongs to the Iraqi Ministry of Internal Affairs, as saying.
Last week, Arabic and Turkish media reported that Tehran had launched construction of the largest missile base in the Syrian Coastal Mountain Range in Iraqi Kurdistan, which reportedly aims to protect the religious borders of Iran.
On May 24, Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament Speaker Yusuf Mohammed Sadiq said that there Iranian advisers in the southern regions of Kurdistan who are helping in the fight against the Daesh, the terrorist organization outlawed in Russia and a range of other states, but that this is a single example of the presence of Iranian military in the region.
Iraqi Kurdistan is an autonomous territory in northern Iraq, whose status is enshrined in the Iraqi Constitution.
