DUBAI, Iran (AP) — Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have attacked militant targets in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region with missiles and drones, the official IRNA news firm said Wednesday.
A senior official at Komala, an Iranian Kurdish opposition party, told Reuters that several of its offices were attacked on Wednesday morning. He said there were casualties and assets, but had no details.
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Terhan accused armed Iranian Kurdish dissidents of being concerned about unrest in the country, especially in the northwest, where Iran’s top 10 million Kurds live.
The Revolutionary Guards said after the attacks that they would continue to target terrorists in the region.
“This operation will continue with our full determination until the risk is well repelled, the bases of the terrorist teams are dismantled and the government of the Kurdish region assumes its obligations and responsibilities,” the Revolutionary Guards said in a reading on state television.
The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the two dominant parties in northern Iraq, condemned Iran’s bombing of spaces in Iraqi Kurdistan, the Iraqi news firm reported.
Protests erupted in Iran this month over the death of an Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, in police custody.
Amini, 22, from the northwestern Kurdish city of Saqez, arrested Sept. 13 in Tehran for “inappropriate dress” by morality police, which enforces the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code.
He died 3 days later in hospital after falling into a coma, triggering the first major opposition demonstration on Iran’s streets since the government crushed protests against emerging gas in 2019. (Reporting via Dubai Newsroom; Editing via Angus MacSwan)
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