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In reaction to recent anti-Tehran “terror” acts, Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Tuesday that it has launched a volley of ballistic missiles at the bases of “terrorists” and Israel’s spy agency Mossad in Syria and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, respectively.
The IRGC made the announcement of the attacks in three statements that were posted on Sepah News. According to Xinhua news agency, the attacks were carried out at midnight in response to what it described as recent “terrorist attacks” in the provinces of Kerman and Sistan and Baluchestan in southeast Iran, as well as Israeli assassinations of Iranian and resistance leaders.
Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, was struck by an IRGC missile, killing four persons, the Kurdistan Region Security Council reported.
At 11.30 p.m. on Monday, the IRGC fired ballistic missiles on “several populated civilian areas” in Erbil, the Council said in a statement early Tuesday.
“Erbil, as a stable region, has never been a source of threat to any party,” the statement said, describing the missile attack as “a clear violation of the sovereignty of the (Kurdish) region and Iraq”.
The statement also called on the federal government and the international community not to remain silent about such attacks.
The most recent events occurred more than two weeks after two “suicide terrorists” in Kerman, Iran, exploded two explosives close to the grave of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani on January 3, inflicting over 90 fatalities and 280 injuries.
The terrorist organization Islamic State asserted that it was behind the explosions.
Source:IANS
