In the wake of Turkish strikes in northern Syria and Iraq, Iran on Sunday night launched new strikes against Iranian Kurdish opposition groups stationed in neighboring Iraqi Kurdistan, less than a week after similar strikes, local officials said.
The anti-terrorist services in Kurdistan confirmed that “the Revolutionary Guards again struck at the Kurdish-Iranian parties”, without reporting any results on these strikes, which were carried out around midnight.
For their part, the Iranian Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Iranian Kurdish nationalist organization Komala confirmed that the strikes were carried out on their facilities in the region.
The Kurdistan Democratic Party tweeted on Monday that it had come under “rocket strikes and suicide drones” at two locations near Erbil. The oldest Kurdish party in Iran, founded in 1945, said: “These indiscriminate attacks are taking place at a time when the Iranian regime is unable to stop the ongoing demonstrations in Kurdistan, western Iran.”
While the official Iraqi news agency reported that “the headquarters of three Iranian opposition parties in Kurdistan were bombed by Iranian missiles and drones.”
At the same time, Iraqi media reported on casualties as a result of the bombing, noting that an Iranian drone bombed a camp of Iranian Kurdish refugees in Erbil.
This Iranian bombing comes in the wake of the Turkish Defense Ministry’s announcement yesterday that the Air Force carried out raids on Kurdish militias in northern Syria and Iraq, killing 89 targets, in retaliation for the bombing that took place in Istanbul a week ago, which claimed lives. six people.
The statement said the strikes targeted bases of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Syrian Kurdish YPG, which Ankara considers an offshoot of the PKK.
It also indicated that strikes were carried out on Qandil, Asus and Khakurk in Iraq, as well as on Kobani, Tal Refaat, Al Jazeera and Derik in Syria.
Notably, Ankara frequently launches airstrikes in northern Iraq, where it has deployed commandos to support its operations as part of a years-long campaign against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Similarly, Iranian strikes have been repeated in northern Iraq since mid-September, with protests continuing in Iran amid the death of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian Kurdish woman, following her arrest by the vice police.
November 14 in Iraqi Kurdistan, Tehran’s missile and drone strikes on Iranian Kurdish opposition groups killed one person and injured eight.
