Iran‘s foreign minister said a break-up of Iraq would be “short-sighted,” and urged to keep its neighbor whole.

“I believe Iraq, it is in the interest of everybody — and I mean everybody — in the interest of stability in our region, to keep territorial integrity of Iraq, to keep Iraq one. All attempts to break out are short-sighted and will harm even those who are trying to do it. So it is in the interest of not only Iran, but the United States and all other countries in the region,” Javad Zarif said Sunday on NBC‘s “Meet the Press.”