Iraq: Revolutionary Guards claim responsibility for rocket attack on Arbil

The Guards of the Revolution They have claimed responsibility for a series of rocket attacks on Iraqi Kurdistan, confirming that they were targeting an Israeli “strategic center” and threatening Israel with new “catastrophic” retaliation.

“The ‘strategic center of the Zionist conspiracy and immorality’ was targeted by powerful advanced missiles of the Revolutionary Guards Corps,” the Guard’s website said in a statement published by Sepah News.

According to the text, the Guards responded to “recent crimes of the Zionist regime”, referring to an Israeli attack on Monday in Syria, which resulted in the death of two officials of this body.

This morning, Kurdish security forces confirmed that 12 “ballistic missiles” fired “outside the borders of Iraq and more specifically from the east” targeted the US consulate in Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, located in the northern part of the country. , without causing casualties.

In a statement today, the Revolutionary Guards threatened Israel with “harsh, decisive and destructive responses to its crimes.”

For its part, Paris condemned “with the utmost vigor” the rocket attack against Arbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, on Saturday night to Sunday, considering that it threatens the stability of the whole region.

The attack “threatens the stability of Iraq and the region,” according to a press release issued by the French Foreign Ministry, which recalled its “commitment to Iraqi sovereignty, as well as to the stability of the autonomous region.” of Kurdistan within it “.

In addition, the French Foreign Ministry said that the ballistic missile attack threatens efforts to conclude talks focusing on Iran’s nuclear program.