The Iranian Revolutionary Guard carried out missile strikes and drone strikes against the headquarters of Iranian opposition parties inside the Kurdistan region of Iraq, while Baghdad said that these attacks violated its sovereignty.

A statement on behalf of the Revolutionary Guards said that its strikes inflicted great damage on what it called "terrorists affiliated with global arrogance in Iraqi Kurdistan."

Iranian media also indicated that 4 missiles fell at dawn today, Monday, on the headquarters of the Iranian Kurdistan Democratic Party in Erbil Governorate, in conjunction with the attacks of the "Komala" party's headquarters near Sulaymaniyah by booby-trapped drones.

Al-Jazeera correspondent in Iraqi Kurdistan reported that sirens sounded in the US Consulate in Erbil, coinciding with the Iranian bombing of the Kurdish opposition sites.

In Tehran, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman called on the governments of Baghdad and Erbil to assume their responsibilities towards what he called "Iran's right to guarantee its security on the borders with Iraq."

He said, "Erbil should not allow separatist groups to export weapons to rioters and terrorists inside Iran to destabilize it," as he put it.

For its part, the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs said today, Monday, that Baghdad categorically rejects the Iranian attack on the Kurdistan region, considering the repeated Iranian and Turkish attacks on the region a violation of Iraqi sovereignty.

American condemnation

In a parallel context, the "Hamza" military headquarters of the ground forces of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced the reinforcement of its forces in the northwest of the country to confront what it described as "destabilizing factors following the movements of hostile separatist terrorist groups within the Iranian borders," as he put it.

He added in a statement that the security of Iran and its citizens is a red line, warning what he called "mercenary terrorist elements of global arrogance" that he would resolutely confront any attempt to destabilize the country's security.

For its part, the US Central Command condemned the Iranian missile strikes and the drone attack on areas in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

The commander of the Central Command, General Michael Korella, said that the Iranian attacks - which he described as indiscriminate and illegal - endanger civilians and violate Iraqi sovereignty.

Kurella added that the Iranian attacks also endanger the security and stability of Iraq and the Middle East.