In full wave of contestation of the Tehran regime after the death of Mahsa Amini, massive attacks would have killed thirteen people.
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Contested inside by a wave of anti-regime demonstrations, Iranian power projects the crisis and violence beyond its territory. Iran launched, on Wednesday, September 26, a series of cross -border attacks in northern Iraq against premises and bases of Iranian parties based at its neighbor on Wednesday. An operation carried out in retaliation for their support displayed in the protest movement born after the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman of Kurdish origin of 22 years died on September 16 after her arrest by the Iranian police police.
If the attack was expected and feared, after five days of threats made by Tehran against the Iranian Kurdish parties, its intensity is unprecedented. This is the most important operation led by Iran on Iraqi soil for ten years.
These raids made “13 dead – including a pregnant woman – and 58 injured, mostly civilians, including children under the age of 10”, announced at the beginning of the evening the anti -terrorist services of Kurdistan of Iraq, who mentioned “more than seventy” bombings, led by “ballistic missiles” and by “armed drones”.
a primary school touched
“Iranian refugees, including women and children”, would be part of the victims, deplored on Twitter the antenna in Iraq of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), evoking a camp reached in Koysinjaq, east of Erbil. “The attack would have affected a primary school where students were,” said the agency. Three journalists from Kurdish Iraqi K24 television were also injured.
Iranian state television said that “the terrestrial forces of the Guardians of the Revolutionary [the ideological army of the Islamic Republic] [had] targeted several districts of separatist terrorists in the north of the Iraq with precision missiles and destructive drones “. In recent days, Iranian artillery fire has on several occasions of the border areas of Kurdistan of Iraq, north of Erbil, without so far to make notable damage.
Begun at 10 am, this attack in three waves of strikes that have spread over several hours, targeted the two main Iranian Kurdish formations, the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) and the Komala party, As well as a basis of the Party for Liberty of Kurdistan (PAK) in the governorates of Erbil and Soulaymaniyé – two regions controlled by the Regional Government of Kurdistan (GRK), the governing body of the northern region of Iraq , mainly populated by Kurds.
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