SULAIMANIYA (AP) — At least two other people were killed and 10 wounded Monday when rockets and drones hit the headquarters of Iranian Kurdish parties in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, local officials and security resources said.
Iran’s semi-official Fars reports that the country’s Revolutionary Guards attacked the bases of “terrorist groups” in Iraq’s Kurdish region with missiles and drones.
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Local officials and security resources said the strikes hit targets near Erbil and Sulaimaniya. A hospital official in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Koye told Reuters that two other people were killed and at least 10 wounded in the attacks.
The Revolutionary Guards have attacked the bases of the Iranian Kurdish militant opposition in Iraq’s Kurdish region since the death of Kurd Mahsa Amini on Sept. 16 sparked national unrest.
Iran has accused Kurdish militants based in Iraq of fomenting unrest and threatening to attack armed Iranian Kurdish dissidents. In a guard attack in September, thirteen other people were killed and 58 wounded near Erbil and Sulaimaniya.
Kurdish security officials said the drones targeted two Iranian Kurdish dissident bases near Erbil and Sulaimaniya, adding that two other people were killed and several wounded in rocket attacks on Koye.
A media and public relations official with Iran’s Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDPI), an exiled Kurdish Kurdish opposition party, told Reuters that two of its fighters were killed in attacks on 4 of its offices. The KDPI headquarters in Koye, one of the offices attacked, he said.
An Iranian Kurdish rights organization said on Twitter that guards attacked a Komala party base in Sulaimaniya with six drones and a DPKI base near Erbil with 4 missiles.
In September, Iran’s guards issued a saying saying that such operations would continue until the bases of the “terrorist groups” were removed and the regional government “acted in accordance with its commitments. “Written by Nadine Awadalla and Ahmed Rasheed; Edited by Christian Schmollinger, Tothrough Chopra, William Maclean)
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