“We would never adopt a position voiced without any constraint by US Vice President Joe Biden, who said directly that Iraq should be split into Shia and Sunni parts and that the Kurds should be given what they want,” Sergei Lavrov said Monday while addressing a youth forum near the Russian capital Moscow. 

Lavrov further described Biden’s position as “unacceptable” and censured as “social engineering” lecturing the Iraqi people on how to structure and govern their country.

“We won’t commit to such things, telling Sunnis to get out today and urging Shias to move on next time. This is ‘social engineering,’ state structure manipulation from far outside,” RT quoted the top Russian diplomat as saying.

“We believe that Iraqis – Shia, Sunnis and Kurds – should decide for themselves how to live together,” Lavrov underlined, noting that the destructiveness of Biden’s idea is obvious.

His remarks came following reports that Biden is seriously considering a run as a Democratic nominee for his country’s presidential election.

Biden’s idea of decentralizing Iraq was first mentioned in his 2006 article inThe New York Times in which he suggested the federalization of Iraq and the establishment of autonomous regions for Sunnis, Shia and Kurds.

At the time American forces were engaged in a massive US-led military invasion of Iraq, which began in 2003 under the pretext of eliminating the country’s arsenal of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Following the ouster of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein by the occupying US-led troops, no WMD’s were ever discovered in the nation.

The US-led war on Iraq lasted until 2011 and claimed the lives of an estimated 1.5 million Iraqis.

Many observers believe the persisting violence and terror campaign within Iraq is the direct consequence of the US-led invasion of the country for nearly eight years.