TEHRAN – Parliamentarian Hossein Naqavi Hosseini on Tuesday urged the Iraqi Kurdistan’s authorities to call off the upcoming independence referendum, saying the vote would be detrimental to all Iraqi nationals, including the Kurds.

Naqavi Hosseini, who serves as a spokesman with of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said the Zionists and Americans are seeking to disintegrate regional countries to make them weaker.

The Kurdish region is influential only when it’s untied with Iraq, he added.

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