The authorities of Iraqi Kurdistan report four dead and six injured in an attack carried out by Iran

Tehran confirms attacks against "terrorist" positions in Erbil and Mossad in Syrian territory in response to "recent" attacks

Erbil authorities detain two Iranians suspected of spying for the Revolutionary Guard

The Security Council of Iraqi Kurdistan reported this Monday four civilians dead and six others injured in an attack by Iran with ballistic missiles in several areas of Erbil, capital of the autonomous region and seat of the Kurdish regional government.

The attack took place around 11:30 p.m. (local time), when Iran's Revolutionary Guard fired "several ballistic missiles", claiming that the target was "positions of Iranian opposition groups." "Unfortunately, they always use unfounded excuses to attack Erbil, which, as a stable region, has never been a source of threat to any party," reads a statement.

The organization, through its profile on the social network Facebook, has indicated that this is a "flagrant violation of the sovereignty of the Kurdistan region and Iraq": "The federal government and the international community must not remain silent to this crime," he said.

The Prime Minister of the Regional Government of Iraqi Kurdistan, Masrur Barzani, has condemned in "the strongest terms" this "cowardly attack" against the population of Kurdistan. "My thoughts are with the families of the martyrs and I wish the injured a speedy recovery," he said after calling the attack "unjustifiable."

"I ask our partners in the international community not to remain silent in the face of the repeated attacks against the people of Kurdistan. In the coming days, we will work with our partners to stop these brutal attacks against our innocent people," he said through his profile. of the social network X, formerly known as Twitter.

Sources from the local Erbil Police consulted by the Shafaq news portal have indicated that two Iranians have been detained in the early hours of this Tuesday on suspicion of being involved in espionage for the Revolutionary Guard in the framework of these attacks.

One of the arrested people was inside a mosque and has been handed over to security forces. The second suspected person has been arrested inside a cemetery located near the house of a well-known Kurdish businessman who died in the attack along with his family.

Subsequently, the Kurdish news agency Rudaw reported that an unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down by security forces at around 5:10 a.m. (local time), also in the city of Erbil, this time without causing any casualties.

IRAN ANNOUNCES THE "DESTRUCTION" OF "TERRORIST" TARGETS AND MOSSAD

Shortly before, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard - a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces - announced the "destruction of the meeting places of the commanders and main elements related to the recent terrorist crimes" located in Syria, "as well as the headquarters of espionage" by Israel in the Kurdistan region.

"In response to the recent crimes of terrorist groups that unjustly martyred a group of our beloved compatriots in Kerman and Rask, the Revolutionary Guard has attacked facilities of commanders and main elements related to terrorist operations. In particular, Islamic State has been identified in the occupied territories of Syria and destroyed them by firing a series of missiles," reports the IRNA news agency.

Secondly, the Revolutionary Guard has announced the "attack and destruction of the espionage headquarters of the Zionist regime (Mossad) in the Iraqi Kurdistan region." "This headquarters has been the center for developing espionage operations and planning terrorist actions in the region and especially in our beloved country," he added.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported "violent explosions" in the city of Aleppo and its surroundings as a result of the fall of at least four missiles. It is worth mentioning that parts of Aleppo are controlled by the terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS), heir to the Al Nusra Front, a former affiliate of Al Qaeda in Syria.

At the beginning of the month, Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack in the city of Kerman in which suicide bombers blew themselves up near the tomb of General Qasem Soleimani in Kerman (south), leaving more than 90 dead. This attack took place two weeks after twelve Iranian police officers were killed in an attack by the Sunni terrorist group Jaish al Adl against a police station in the city of Rask, located near the Pakistan border.

In addition, Sede Razi Mousavi, a senior member of Iran's Revolutionary Guard in Syria and close to Soleimani, was killed three weeks ago in an Israeli attack carried out in the Syrian capital, Damascus. His death occurred in the context of the constant attacks by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the Gaza Strip, which have left more than 24,100 Palestinians dead, in response to the unprecedented offensive launched on October 7 by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).