Iran strikes against terrorist targets in Iraq
Xinhua News Agency, Tehran, September 9 (Reporter Wang Shoubao Gao Wencheng) The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard issued a communique on the 9th that the Iranian side used missiles and drones on the 8th to target terrorist targets in the Erbil Province of the Kurdish Autonomous Region in northern Iraq. Blow.
The communiqué stated that the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps destroyed a terrorist target "endangering Iran's national security" and killed and injured dozens of militants in this operation.
The reason for launching this attack is the "evil deeds" committed by many terrorist organizations in the border areas of Iran's West Azerbaijan Province, Kurdistan Province and Kermanshah Province in recent months.
According to a media report from the Iraqi Kurdistan Autonomous Region on the 9th, the "Iranian Kurdistan Democratic Party" armed forces were attacked by Iran in the morning at multiple strongholds in the Erbil province of Iraq.
The armed commander Kava Bakhrami said that the attack caused no casualties.
The head of the ground forces of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Mohamed Parkpur, said on the 6th that terrorist organizations are using Iraq as a platform for attacks on Iran, and Iran will adopt a "stern response."
According to reports, the personnel of the Iranian rebel "Iran Kurdistan Democratic Party" are believed to be hiding in the mountainous area on the border between Iran and Iraq and have been repeatedly attacked by Iran across the border.
In August this year, when Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Shamhani met with visiting Iraqi Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein, he urged the Iraqi side to expel the “anti-Iranian armed terrorist organization” in the Kurdish region.
(Participating reporter: Zhang Miao)