The United States said it “strongly” condemned Iran’s attacks on its Kurdish opponents, which “blatantly violated” Iraq’s sovereignty, in a statement on Tuesday.
“We strongly condemn Iran’s continued missile and drone attacks in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. We call on Iran, which has repeatedly and brazenly violated Iraq’s sovereignty, to stop these attacks,” said State Department spokesman Ned Price.
Iran has confirmed attacks against “terrorist groups” based in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region (north), which borders Iranian territory.
The Iranian government accuses these groups, which have long been in its crosshairs, of stoking unrest in Iran, which has been facing protests since the death in custody on September 16 of a young Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, detained for three days. formerly by the morality police. in Tehran.
The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran pointed
“Five Iranian missiles targeted a building of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI),” said Tariq al-Haidari, the mayor of Koysanjaq, a city located east of Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.
“There is one death and eight wounded. They are Iranian Kurds,” detailed the Ministry of Health of the autonomous community.
At the end of the day, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry “condemned in the strongest terms” these attacks, which “violate Iraqi sovereignty”, assuring that it would take “high-level diplomatic measures”, without detailing them.
Source: BFM TV
