FNA- The Iranian foreign ministry reiterated the country's inconvertible position against the arrangement of a referendum for independence of the Iraqi Kurdistan region, adding that Iraq's territorial integrity is highly important and non-negotiable.

"Iran maintains an unchangeable stance on the referendum. Iraq's national sovereignty and territorial integrity is highly serious and important to us and is not negotiable. We have ties with all ethnic groups, the central government and other tribes (in Iraq) and such relations can continue," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said in his weekly press conference in Tehran on Monday.

"Iraq's national sovereignty and integrity benefits all residents of the country and any change can make the country face chaos and crisis," he warned.

Qassemi also underlined Iran's close, extensive and all-out ties with Iraq.

In relevant remarks last Tuesday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani renewed his country's continued support for Iraq's territorial integrity and national sovereignty.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran supports a stable, an integrated and united Iraq; any move undermining unity and integrity of Iraq will not be in favor of anybody, thus unacceptable," President Rouhani said in a meeting with Head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) Ammar al-Hakim in Tehran.

The Iranian president, meantime, pointed to the recent victories of the Iraqi army against the ISIL in Mosul in Western Iraq, and said, "Mosul liberation will surely reinforce Iraq's integrity."

"In light of prudence of the Iraqi officials and strengthening and integrity of all ethnic groups, happiness of the Iraqi nation over Mosul liberation should be preserved," President Rouhani said.

Noting that promotion of Tehran-Baghdad relations is the wish of both Iranian and Iraqi nations and in line with mutual interests, he said that the Islamic Republic of Iran has always been favoring solid relations with all neighbors, specially Iraq.