Iraq starts relocating Iranian Kurdish fighters from Iran border - Iraq foreign minister

Iraq's Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein speaks with the media after a meeting with Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, in Baghdad, Iraq, August 22, 2023. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani/File photo

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq has started relocating Iranian Kurdish groups from Iraq's Kurdish region frontiers with Iran to camps far from the border as part of a security agreement between Baghdad and Tehran, Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said on Tuesday.

Iraq and Iran signed a border security agreement in March, a move Iraqi officials said was aimed primarily at tightening the frontier with Iraq's Kurdish region, where Tehran says armed Kurdish dissidents pose a threat to its security.