Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian spoke to reporters today at the Foreign Ministry, addressing a wide range of issues.

On the protests that have rocked Iran over the last few months, especially the northwest Kurdish regions, Amir-Abdollahian said he held “numerous meetings in the last eight weeks” in Baghdad and Tehran with security officials from the central government of Iraq and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG). He said they reached several agreements in which Iraq “committed to keeping terrorists away from Iran’s borders.”

Iran launched numerous attacks in the last month into Iraq at the bases of armed Kurdish groups. It also sent reinforcements into the Kurdish areas of Iran where there are heavy protests. Abdollahian said that until the central government in Iraq and the KRG share security on their borders, Iran will continue to “take action to defend national security.” 

Abdollahian also claimed that diplomatic organizations in the country have documents proving there is a “conspiracy” to involve Iran in a domestic war, using terrorists, with the goal of disintegrating Iran. He claimed that the conspiracy involved “taking advantage of people’s feelings” to carry out the plot, but it has failed.