Türkiye voiced discontent with Iran’s treatment of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), designated as a terrorist group by Ankara. Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler, in a televised interview Thursday night, expressed frustration, rebuking Iran’s stance as unfriendly. According to Guler, Türkiye had informed Iranian counterparts of PKK movements and surveillance efforts, but Iranians denied finding anyone, which the defense minister found concerning.
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For the first time in two months, a change was observed in the Iraqi political discourse towards both Iran and the United States. Although both Tehran and Washington have been comfortable for years in making Iraq an arena for settling their scores, the Iraqi perspective, whether for balancing the relationship between the two parties or the way it deals with the independence of its political decision, differed with the change of governments that succeeded after 2003.