Iran's claim that Iraq agreed to move Iranian Kurdish opposition members out of the Kurdistan Region or hand them to Tehran was absent from Baghdad's account of security talks.
Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Mohammed Kazem Al-e Sadegh made the claim on Oct. 20, following a meeting in Baghdad the previous day with Iraqi, Iranian and Kurdistan Regional Government representatives. Iraq's National Security Advisory said the meeting covered unresolved issues and work under an existing security agreement. Its published account announced no decision to remove or hand over opposition members.
Rudaw reported that a person it identified as a meeting participant said the measures Iran described had not been discussed and that the talks produced no new agreement. Al-Araby Al-Jadeed separately cited an unnamed official with Iraq's National Security Advisory who denied an agreement to hand over opposition members or a decision to expel the groups from Iraq. Expulsion from Iraq is a different step from removal from the Kurdistan Region, as described by Iran.
The countries' security accord dates to March 2023. Iran has described it as requiring Iraq to disarm Iranian Kurdish opposition groups and move them away from the shared border. A United Nations report separately confirmed that the accord included steps toward disarmament. Neither account establishes a requirement to send opposition members out of the Kurdistan Region or to Iran.
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani said Oct. 12 that the region must not be used to threaten Iran. He said statements by opposition groups suggesting they might enter Iran had endangered the region.
Rudaw also reported that representatives of Komala and PAK said they had received no notice requiring them to leave. A KDPI representative told the outlet his party had received no notice of a decision from the Oct. 19 meeting.
United Nations refugee agency figures show 8,691 Iranians registered as refugees or asylum seekers in the Kurdistan Region at the end of May 2026. That total does not count opposition-group members separately. The public accounts provide no list of people affected by Iran's claimed measures or date for carrying them out.
