The attack did not cause any casualties and was not claimed, but it is particularly symbolic.

"Twelve ballistic missiles" fired "outside the borders of Iraq, and more precisely from the east", targeted the American consulate in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, before dawn on Sunday, the authorities said. Kurdish security forces.

Iraq shares its long eastern border with Iran, which plays an essential political and economic role with its Iraqi neighbour.

But in Iraq, it is generally the firing of rockets or booby-trapped drones, never claimed and on a smaller scale, which target American interests and the troops of the international anti-jihadist coalition.

“Neither damage, nor victim”, according to the Americans

“The missiles were fired outside the borders of Iraq and Kurdistan, (coming) more precisely from the east” of the country.

“There are no human losses, only material damage,” according to a press release from the Kurdistan counter-terrorism unit.

For his part, a spokesman for the US State Department assured that there was “neither damage nor victim in any of the installations of the American government”.

The local television channel Kurdistan24, whose studios are not far from the new premises of the American consulate, published on its social networks images of its damaged offices, with collapsed sections of the false ceiling and broken glass.

"We condemn this terrorist attack launched against several sectors of Erbil, we call on the inhabitants to keep calm", indicated the Prime Minister of Kurdistan Masrour Barzani.

The threat of the Revolutionary Guards

The shootings against Erbil come nearly a week after the death in Syria of two senior officers of the Revolutionary Guards, ideological army of the Islamic Republic of Iran, killed in an attack attributed to Israel.

“The Zionist regime will pay for this crime,” the Guardians promised in a statement on Tuesday.

Sunday's attack also comes at a time when talks on Iran's nuclear power, about to conclude, were abruptly suspended, following new demands from Moscow.

Concluded by Iran on one side, and the United States, China, France, the United Kingdom, Russia and Germany on the other, this pact was supposed to prevent Tehran from acquiring the bomb atomic in exchange for the lifting of the sanctions which are suffocating its economy.

But it crumbled in 2018 after Washington withdrew, decided by Donald Trump, who restored his measures against Iran.

In response, Iran gradually freed itself from the limits imposed on its nuclear program.

Negotiations had resumed after the election of Joe Biden.

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