The Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic of Iran, claimed responsibility for the missile fire on Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, on Sunday.
They claim to have targeted an Israeli "strategic center" and threatening the Jewish state with new "destructive" operations.
The authorities of Iraqi Kurdistan (north) had previously indicated that “12 ballistic missiles” fired “outside the borders of Iraq, and more precisely from the East”, had targeted the American consulate in Erbil on Sunday, without causing any casualties.
On their Sepah News site, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards claimed that "the 'strategic center of Zionist conspiracy and vice' had been targeted by powerful advanced missiles".
Reacting to Tehran's accusations, Kurdistan authorities later said in a statement that the targeted site was a "civilian site", castigating "a justification aimed solely at covering up this crime".
“These are baseless allegations,” the governor of Erbil assured a press conference on Sunday: “There are no Israeli sites in this region, there is only the new building of the American consulate”.
This attack takes place nearly a week after the death in Syria of two senior Revolutionary Guards officers, killed in an attack attributed to Israel.
“The Zionist regime [Israel] will pay for this crime,” the Guardians promised on Tuesday.
Israel did not react immediately.
Two people "slightly injured"
Two people were "slightly injured" by the shots, according to the governor of Erbil, Oumid Khouchnaw, who specified that the missiles had mainly fallen "on empty land".
The local television channel Kurdistan24, whose studios are not far from new premises of the American consulate, published images of its damaged offices.
A spokesman for the US State Department, for his part, assured that there was “no damage or casualty at any of the US government facilities”.
For its part, Paris condemned "with the greatest firmness" the firing of missiles.
This attack "threatens the stability of Iraq and the region", according to a press release from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which recalls its "attachment to the sovereignty of Iraq, as well as to its stability and that of the Region autonomous Kurdistan within it".
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