ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) on Sunday rejected threats made against “a neighboring country,” asserting that it will not allow any party to use the Region to attack a neighboring state after a newly formed coalition of Iranian Kurdish opposition parties vowed to topple the Islamic Republic.

“Today, several parties released a statement in which they made threats against a neighboring country,” read an interior ministry statement, reaffirming that the Kurdistan Region is “a factor of stability and calm in the region and has never been a source of threat or danger to the security of any neighboring country.”

The KRG will “not allow any party to use the Kurdistan Region against any neighboring country,” the statement added.

The remarks came hours after the announcement of a joint coalition by five Kurdish opposition parties called the “Alliance of Political Forces of Iranian Kurdistan.”

The parties involved include the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), Organization of Iranian Kurdistan Struggle (Khabat), and the Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan.

Among the alliance’s primary objectives, according to a joint statement released by the coalition, is to “bring down the Islamic Republic of Iran” and to realize “the Kurdish people's right to self-determination.”

Many of the dissident groups are based in the Kurdish Region and have long been military targets for Iran, with a suspected Iranian drone strike on officials from Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan in Sulaimani in February killing one, according to the group. The Kurdistan Region Security Agency (Asayish), however, denied the claim, insisting that the incident stemmed from a mere vehicle rollover.

In 2023, Iraq and Iran signed a security agreement under which Baghdad pledged to disarm and relocate these Iranian Kurdish opposition groups from border areas, following repeated warnings from Tehran.