Iran Says Launched Missile Strike On ‘Israel Spy HQ’ In Iraq (image- twitter/Erbil_life)
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said that they have launched ballistic strikes on Israel spy headquarters in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. They have also claimed to have hit targets allegedly linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS armed group) in northern Syria, reports Al Jazeera.
The strike came amid rising concerns regarding the escalation of conflicts that has spread in the red sea since the war in Gaza.
According to regional security council, four people were killed and six were wounded. At least eight explosions were heard in Erbil, the capital of Iran’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region.
“In response to the recent atrocities of the Zionist regime, causing the killing of commanders of the Guards and the Axis of Resistance … one of the main Mossad espionage headquarters in Iraq”s Kurdistan region was destroyed with ballistic missiles,” the Guards said in a statement.
Iraq’s government condemned Iran’s aggression on Erbil causing civilian casualties. The government said that they are considering to file a complaint at the United nation security council.
The IRGC has claimed that the attack was targeted on the headquarters of Israel spy agency Mossad in Erbil.
The IRGC added that “we assure our nations that the Guards offensive operation will continue until avenging the last drops of martyr’s blood”.
Erbil governor Omed Khoshnaw has called the assault “a terror attack, an inhumane act”. Iraq’s Kurdish Prime Minister Masrour Barzani too condemned the attack and called it a ‘crime against the Kurdish people”.
The US State department condemned the attacks near Ebil. Mathew Miller, US spokesperson described the missile attacks as ‘reckless’, adding that they ‘undermine Iraq’s stability’.
Reuters has reported that the attack did not affect any US facilities and there were no US casualties. As per the Associated Press report, US defence official has said that they have tracked the missiles, both in northern Iraq and northern Syria, and called them “imprecise”.
Since the war began in Gaza in October, US and allied forces have faced dozens of attacks in Iraq and Syria. As per Al Jazeera report, Iran has been trying as much as possible to distance itself from any kind of tension in the region amid Israel’s war in Gaza.
