Arab Daily:

Kurdistan Referendum A Move by Anti-Syria Axis to Make Up for Losses in Syria

Rasa - The terrorist groups' defeats in the region have made the US and its allies use all their means, including disintegration of the regional states, to compensate for their failures, a Syrian newspaper wrote.

News ID: 432863

Date: 03 October 2017 - 16:17

RNA - The Arabic-language al-Watan daily underlined that after two years of Russia's military assistance to Syria and its success in targeting the logistic infrastructures of the terrorist groups, which are supported by the US and the Persian Gulf Arab littoral states, the military and political situation in Syria and the region has changed.

"The Syrian government's position has strengthened and it has now gained a major weight and a major say in any regional and international equations," it added.

Now the Zionist regime is attempting to establish a Kurdish regime in Northern Iraq to have a foothold in the center of the Arab countries and create a knot in the resistance pivot from Iran to Iraq, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine, al-Watan wrote.

In relevant remarks last week, Senior Advisor to the Iranian Parliament Speaker Hossein Amir Abdollahian blasted the independence referendum in the Iraqi Kurdistan region, and said that such a move will make Israel and the ISIL terrorists stronger.

"(Iraqi Kurdistan leader Massoud) Barzani’s independence bid means strengthening ISIL and Tel Aviv, new regional anarchy and instability,” Amir Abdollahian wrote on his Twitter account.

He reiterated that the Kurdish people in Iraq could not enjoy genuine support unless the Arab country’s national unity was fully supported.

"Strong support for Iraq’s national unity is the real support for the Iraqi Kurds,” Amir-Abdollahian added.

In defiance of Iraq’s stiff opposition, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) held a non-binding referendum on September 25 on secession from the central government in Baghdad.

Official results showed 92.73 percent of voters backed the secession. Turnout was put at 72.61 percent.

While much of the international community, including the United Nations, the European Union and Iraq’s neighbors, has opposed the referendum, only Israel has openly supported an independent Kurdish state.

Regional players Iran and Turkey have opposed the Kurdish referendum in Iraq, warning that the controversial vote could lead to further instability in the entire Middle East.

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