Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Wednesday it had fired missiles and drones at militant targets in the Kurdish region of northern neighboring Iraq and warned of more attacks to come.
Nine people died and 32 were injured in the attacks near Erbil and Suleimania, Iraqi Kurdistan, Health Minister Saman Barazanchi said in a statement.
The attacks came after Iranian authorities accused armed Iranian Kurdish dissidents of involvement in a wave of unrest now rocking Iran, especially in the northwest, where most of the country’s Kurdish population of more than 10 million lives.
Iraqi Kurdish sources said drone strikes hit at least 10 Iranian Kurdish bases near Suleimania, Iraqi Kurdistan, early on Wednesday, without giving details on possible casualties.
The Revolutionary Guard, Iran’s elite military and security force, said after the attacks it would continue to target what it called terrorists in the region.
“This operation will continue with our full determination until the threat is effectively repelled, the bases of terrorist groups are dismantled and the authorities in the Kurdish region assume their obligations and responsibilities,” the Guard said in a statement read on state television.
The Iraqi Foreign Ministry condemned the Iranian attacks in areas of Iraqi Kurdistan.
Protests erupted in Iran this month over the death of a young Iranian Kurd, Mahsa Amini, in police custody.
Amini, 22, from the northwestern Kurdish city of Saqez, was arrested on September 13 in the capital Tehran for wearing “inappropriate attire” by the moral police, which enforces the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code.
She died three days later in hospital after slipping into a coma, triggering the first major act of opposition on the streets of Iran since authorities quelled protests against rising gasoline prices in 2019.
Source: CNN Brasil
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