Turkey warns against efforts to stir up civil war in Iran

Turkey’s foreign minister warned against efforts to stir up a civil war inside Iran, while cautioning Tehran after NATO intercepted a Turkey-bound ballistic missile launched from Iran earlier in the week.Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said any effort to stir up a civil war inside Iran in a bid to bring about regime change would be a “historic” mistake.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.“We are against all scenarios that aim to instigate a civil war in Iran, that target ethnic or religious fault lines,” Fidan told journalists in Istanbul.“This is the most dangerous scenario,” he added. He was speaking after reports that Washington was looking to arm Kurdish guerrillas to infiltrate Iran, with US President Donald Trump expressing support for such an offensive.Such a move would raise hackles in Turkey, which has fought a decades-long bloody conflict with the Kurdish militant PKK, which it is now seeking to end. Fidan said he had raised the