الجنرال قاسم سليماني مع النائب العراقي قاسم الاعرجي pic.twitter.com/TdbSuai9c5
— سپاه پاسداران (@IRGCspy) June 10, 2014
Translation: Gen. Qassem Soleimani with Iraqi MP Qassem al-Araji It's a case of misunderstood identity or.....a 'doppelgänger'...mark the date 10 JUNE.
Iran: IRGC Quds Force Commander Not in Baghdad Iraq.(Fars).
The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday rejected recent media reports that Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force General Qassem Soleimani is in Iraq to help the country in its war on terrorists, stressing that no Iranian military official is in the country.
"No military official, specially General Qassem Soleimani, is in Iraq and these reports are untrue," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham told reporters in her weekly press conference here in Tehran on Wednesday.
She further pointed out that Iraq has not requested military and security help from Tehran, but said, "If such a request is made, decision will be made after the demand is studied in accordance with the relations with Iraq and international protocols."
The spokeswoman once again rejected Iran-US cooperation over Iraq, reiterating, "We are opposed to any kind of foreign intervention in Iraq, because it will weaken Iraq's sovereignty and (right of) self-determination."
Iraq's Ambassador to Tehran Mohammad Majid al-Sheikh had also earlier rejected the media claims about the presence of General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad.
"These are just the rumors of biased and despiteful media which are seeking to sow discord among the regional states, specially Iran and Iraq," Majid al-Sheikh said, addressing a conference in Tehran on Tuesday.
"Iraq doesn’t need any country neither for weapons nor for the military forces at all; hence, I emphasize that neither General Soleimani nor any other (Iranian) figure is in Iraq," he reiterated.Hmmm.....Got to be a 'Zionist plot' :)
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