Iran sends tanks to border with Iraq's Kurdish region, Kurdish official says

ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iran deployed a dozen tanks supported by artillery at its border with Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on Monday, a Kurdish official said, adding that the move was a dangerous escalation in the crisis triggered by Iraqi Kurdistan's independence vote.

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