Iranian state media reported on Wednesday that Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched attacks on the Kurdish region of northern Iraq targeting armed rebel groups.
Iranian state television reported that the headquarters of the Komala Party, the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (IKDP), and the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) were hit with missiles and drones.
The attacks were confirmed by a semi-official Iranian news agency.
The headquarters of the Komala Party in Sulaymaniyah was attacked by Iranian army drones, Abdullah Mohtadi, Secretary-General of the Komala Party, said on his social media account.
Meanwhile, the headquarters of the PAK in Koysanca district in Erbil and Kirkuk’s Altınkopru district came under attack, Hussein Yazdanpanah, the head of PAK, told reporters.
Yazdanpanah said that casualties were reported in Altinkopru.
It carried out an artillery attack last week on terrorist group headquarters in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, the IRGC said.
Accusing the Komala Party of smuggling weapons into Iran, the IRGC said in a statement that its ground forces targeted its positions.
The attacks come as nationwide protests began in the wake of the death of a 22-year-old Iranian woman in police custody last week.
