Iran says deal reached with Iraq to expel Kurdish separatists: What to know

Iran said on Tuesday it reached an agreement with Iraq to expel Iranian Kurdish separatist groups from the Iraqi Kurdistan Region as Iranian security forces intensify a crackdown against Kurdish groups concentrated in the country’s northwest. What happened : Iran’s ambassador to Baghdad, Mohammad Kazem Al-e Sadegh, said in an X post that the agreement was reached during a meeting of the joint security committee attended by an Iranian delegation and Iraq’s national security adviser, Qasim al-Aboudi, as part of security cooperation between the neighboring countries. في إطار التعاون الأمني بين الجمهورية الإسلامية الإيرانية وجمهورية العراق، اتفق الجانبان خلال اجتماع اللجنة الأمنية المشتركة ، بحضور الوفد الإيراني ومستشار الأمن القومى العراقي، على اخراج عناصر الجماعات الانفصاليه الإرهابية الإيرانية من إقليم كردستان العراق أو تسليمهم لإيران. https://t.co/BFr346OpAf — محمد كاظم آل صادق (@mohkasadegh) October 20, 2026