TEHRAN
Iran is seriously against U.S. military interference in Iraq, the spokeswoman of Iranian Foreign Ministry, Marziyeh Afkham said Monday.
"With no doubt the recent incidents are linked to the goal of influencing and changing the political trend of Iraq," Afkham noted, adding that "evidence shows that the U.S. is trying to misuse the status quo in Iraq and disrupt the outcome of the election," according to the official news agency IRNA of Iran quoting Afkham.
The spokeswoman also stressed that Iran followed up the current issues in Iraq with sensitivity and said that the terrorist attack on Iraq took place at a time when the Iraqi people "gained a great victory" in the countryˈs recent parliamentary elections of last April - where Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law Coalition became the winner with 93 seats.
Afkham also warned against repercussions of using terrorism as a tool and the trans-regional threats of the terrorist groups, adding it was the "duty of governments and international bodies to responsibly support the government of Iraq to repel the danger of Takfiri and extremist terrorists."
Unrest in the north and west of Iraq began last week after militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), along with other armed groups seized the city of Mosul in northern Iraq’s Nineveh province.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said U.S. officials had already held a comprehensive meeting regarding the events in Iraq and had discussed a range of options “including military action to provide support for the Iraqi government to respond to their request at this difficult time.”
Stressing that “Iraq is facing a brutal enemy”, he said that this also poses a threat to the interests of the U.S. and their allies in Europe and in the region and that he expects President Barack Obama to make “timely decisions.”
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