Last year, Tehran fired missiles at bases of Kurdish groups
in northern Iraq it accuses of involvement in protests against
its restrictions on women, displacing hundreds of Iranian Kurds
and killing some.
Iran has for years refuted Western claims it is a
destabilising influence in the region. Tehran has accused
Western countries of orchestrating unrest and has accused
protesters in ethnic minority regions of working on behalf of
separatist groups.
Baerbock, visiting Iraq on the same day as U.S. Defense
Secretary Lloyd Austin, said she was sending a signal that
Europe's biggest economy wanted deeper cooperation with Iraq.
She said she would discuss Iraq's security and stability,
the question of Yazidis, and cooperation on climate change.
(Reporting by Madeline Chambers in Berlin
Editing by Paul Carrel, Matthias Williams and Sharon Singleton)
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BAGHDAD, March 7 (Reuters) - Iranian missile attacks
across the Iraqi border are unacceptable and put both civilians
and regional stability at risk, German Foreign Minister Annalena
Baerbock said on a visit to the Iraqi capital nearly 20 years
after the U.S.-led invasion.
"With its missile attacks, the Iranian regime shows not only
that it recklessly and brutally suppresses its own people, it
also puts human life and the stability of the whole region at
risk to hold on to power," she said on Tuesday.
"It is unacceptable and dangerous for the whole region," she
told a news conference with her Iraqi counterpart.
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