ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The office of #Masoud Barzani#, Leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), on Wednesday strongly condemned Iran’s recent missile and drone attacks in the Kurdistan Region, deeming them a “crime.”
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Wednesday showered with ballistic missiles and suicide drones bases of Iranian-Kurdish opposition groups in the Kurdistan Region under the pretext of fueling protest across the country. The IRGC has confirmed responsibility for the attacks which, according to an initial tally obtained from the Kurdish health ministry, killed at least nine people and wounded 32 others.
“The Kurdistan Region has come under Iranian forces’ missile attacks and bombardments several times. We condemn these attacks and bombardments because they have caused deaths and injuries among civilians, including innocent women and children. This is actually a crime,” Barzani’s Headquarters said in a statement.
“At the same time, these attacks are a violation of the principles of neighborhood, friendship and sovereignty,” it added, noting that these attacks are “against the interests and stability of the Kurdistan Region.”
Barzani’s office also called on Iran to immediately cease the attacks as they “do not resolve issues.”
The attacks have also been condemned by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the Iraqi government.
Iranian authorities have been in a state of panic since the opposition groups based in Kurdistan Region called for a general strike across the Kurdish areas in western Iran (Rojhelat) on September 19, setting off the recent wave of unrest across the country.
Iran for the past week used artillery to attack the Kurdistan Region in an attempt to target these groups. The offences were triggered by the mass protests which engulfed the country after the death of Kurdish woman, Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, in police custody. [1]