The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq and the Kurdish nationalist group Iranian Komala were targeted by bombings on the night of Sunday to Monday.
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While demonstrations against the regime continue in Iran, the Islamic Republic continues to accuse the Kurds to stir up the uprising. Iran targeted on the night of Sunday, November 20 to Monday, November 21, Iranian Kurdish opposition groups based in neighboring Iraq Kurdistan, a week after similar strikes, they announced these groups and local officials.
“Revolutionary guards [Iranian forces] once again bombed Iranian Kurdish parties,” announced the anti -terrorist services of Kurdistan of Iraq, without mentioning for these strikes that occurred around midnight.
The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (PDKI) and the Kurdish Nationalist Iranian group Komala have both confirmed bombings having targeted their facilities in this autonomous region of northern Iraq.
Monday before dawn, the Iraqi static press agency Ina also reported Iranian raids, evoking “missile fire and Iranian drone strikes” against “three Iranian opposition parties in Kurdistan” Iraq.
Already on November 14, missile fire and drone strikes by Tehran against Iranian Kurdish opposition groups died and eight wounded in Kurdistan of Iraq. Similar strikes had taken place on September 28.
The pdki confirmed Monday on Twitter to have been targeted Koya and in Jejnikan, near Erbil, the regional capital of Kurdistan by “missile shots and kamikazes”.
“These blind attacks occur at a time when the Iranian terrorist regime is unable to stop the current demonstrations in Kurdistan” in Iran, castigated the PDKI, the oldest Kurdish party in Iran founded in 1945.
Conviction of the United States
The Iranian power accuses these opposition groups, for a long time in its sights, of stirring up the troubles in Iran, faced with demonstrations since the death on September 16 of the young Iranian Kurdish Mahsa Amini, arrested by The Police of mores in Tehran.
The American military command for the Middle East (Centcom) condemned in a press release “Iranian cross-border strikes” carried out by “missiles and drones” near Erbil. “Such blind and illegal attacks put civilians in danger, violate Iraqi sovereignty and compromise security and stability (…) of Iraq and the Middle East,” added the Centcom in a press release.
Tehran has accentuated his attacks on these Iranian Kurdish opposition groups since the start of the demonstrations. In the past, several senior Iranian officials have arrested the authorities of Baghdad and those of Erbil on this file, asking them to neutralize this opposition. Installed in Iraq since the 1980s, these Iranian Kurdish factions have been qualified as “terrorists” by the Islamic Republic, which accuses them of attacks on its territory.