MESOP : PUK SELLS KURDISTAN TO TEHRAN

06.10.2014 – BasNews, Kirkuk – For first time a photo has been published that show Iranian General and one of most powerful man in Middle East Qassem Suleimani posing for a photo with Kurdish PUK Peshmerga forces near Kirkuk in northern Iraq.

Qassem Suleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Quds Force and probably one of the Middle East’s most effective operative has been seen meeting Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Khurmatu, a town in north of Salahaddin Province in northern Iraq. There have been widely reported since Islamic State (IS) recent attacks, that Iranian forces has been on ground in northern Iraq and fighting against the extremist group. Last month, there were reports that Suleimani and his Quds forces were in Amerli the besieged town south of Kirkuk, fighting in the area along side Peshmerga forces and Shiite Militia groups. Earlier this month, a senior Iranian official told international media that Suleimani along with 70 Iranian officers were in Erbil the Kurdish Capital during the IS attacks on Kurdistan region and said that Iranian forces were the main factors in protecting the Kurdish region.

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