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Despite Protests, IRCG Launches Drone and Artillery Strikes Against Kurdish Separatists in Iraq

Illustrative: Iraqi Kurds commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Kurdistan Region's independence referendum in Erbil, on September 25, 2022. (Safin Hamed/AFP)
Illustrative: Iraqi Kurds commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Kurdistan Region’s independence referendum in Erbil, on September 25, 2022. (Safin Hamed/AFP)

Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard on Monday unleashed a wave of drone and artillery strikes targeting what Tehran says are bases of Iranian Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq, a semiofficial news agency reported.

It was the second such cross-border assault since Saturday, at a time when Iran is convulsing with protests over the death of a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman who was detained by the nation’s morality police.

A representative of one of the separatist groups in Iraq targeted in the attack — which struck the Sidikan area in the northern Kurdish-run region — said there were no casualties.

“Today three times, the Islamic Republic (of Iran) bombed the Halgurd Mountain side where our forces are based,” said Atta Nasir, a member of the central committee for Komala, a Kurdish opposition party that is exiled from Iran. He spoke to The Associated Press from the party’s headquarters near the Iran-Iraq border.

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