JAKARTA - The Iraqi government has deployed additional security forces to the border area with Iran on Tuesday, March 10 local time.
Al Jazeera's monitoring of the border between the two countries, the addition of Iraqi soldiers is underway given the potential for tension from the US-Israeli conflict against Iran to increase to northern Iraq.
Iraq's border with Iran has a mountainous demography that has long been used by Iranian Kurdish groups to move between the two countries.
According to the media, Iraq's thickening security on the border signaled to Iran that the country was serious about responding to the potential for Tehran's opposition groups to launch operations into Iran.
The effort also showed Iran that Iraq is serious about the 2023 security agreement. Under the agreement, Baghdad said it would crack down on Iran's Kurdish opposition groups in northern Iraq.
In addition, the deployment of these troops sends a signal to Iran's Kurdish armed opposition groups that additional forces will make it difficult for them to move into Iran.
Tensions in Iraq's northern Kurdish region have escalated over the past few days. But for now, both Iran and Iraqi authorities are determined not to make the border a new front line in the increasingly widespread conflict in the Middle East.
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