I don’t consider Iraq a hostile country, and if it is, then we should pull out immediately. I flatly don’t believe the Iranian government line that they illegally crossed the border. They were on their way to see some stupid waterfall, which apparaently, is a popular hiking destination in the Kurdish region.
Iraq is a hostile country, it’s full of people who’d love to see western heads on a pike, or westerners hanging from the end of a rope. These people never should of been there. There’s enough things to see in places that are actually far safer than to risk life and limb for a waterfall, if that is indeed the case, of which I’m still skeptical.