NCRI – Labib Abawi, deputy Foreign Minister of Iraq, said in the meeting with mullahs’ Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki that the Iraqi party wants Iran regime’s control over the common borders with Iraq to prevent illegal passage of Iranians into Iraq as well as arms and drugs, Az-Zowra Iraqi TV reported on May 28.
On Basra, the Iraqi President Jalal Talebani expressed concern and said that foreign hands were involved in creation of insecurity in the oil city port.
In another report, Darossalam newspaper affiliated with the Islamic Party of Iraq, said on May 28 that Shiekh Khalaf Al-Olyan, member of the Iraqi Accord Front warned Mottaki against the dangers of Iranian interventions in Iraqi affairs. In a press release on Saturday, Al-Olyan said a delegation from the Accord Front of Iraq explained about Iranian regime’s flagrant interventions in Iraqi affairs and its negative impact on the security and stability of that country to Mottaki.
Al-Olyan added, "At the same time, the issue of explosions carried out by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq who target Iraqi citizens was also brought to the attention of the Iranian minister because a number of them have been arrested by the American forces." He pointed out, "The Accord Front of Iraq urged the Iranian minister to control the borders and arrest those people who bring narcotics into Iraq and demanded a halt to smuggling of drugs into Iraq."