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| Iran Guard claims missile attack on separatist Kurds in Iraq |
| 2018-09-10 |
| [IsraelTimes] Tehran releases footage of strike on Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan base said to have killed 11 and injured 50 in response to resumption of PDKI hit-and-run attacks in Iran. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps on Sunday grabbed credit for a missile attack targeting an Iraqi base of a Kurdish separatist group. Iranian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? aired footage of surface-to-surface missiles launching Saturday toward the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan base in Iraq, as well as drone footage of the base in the aftermath of the strike, which the separatists say killed at least 11 people and maimed 50. The footage’s release appeared to be a stark warning by the Guard to the separatist group, known by the acronym PDKI, which has resumed hit-and-run attacks in Iran after some two decades of uneasy peace. A Kurdish attack in July killed at least 10 Iranian border guards, likely sparking the Guard’s show of force. Video aired by state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? showed the short-range missiles being fired from mobile launchers in a field in an undisclosed location. The semi-official Tasnim news agency, believed to be close to the paramilitary Guard, identified the missiles fired as Fateh 110-Bs. Those missiles are believed to have a range of up to 300 kilometers (185 miles), according to the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. Tasnim said the missiles traveled some 220 kilometers (135 miles) to reach the base in Koya, in northern Iraq. The Kurdish satellite news channel Rudaw reported that the secretary-general of the PDKI, Mustafa Mawludi, and his predecessor, Khalid Azizi, were maimed in the strike. The Iraqi Foreign Ministry on Sunday issued a statement criticizing Iran’s attack, saying it "rejects the violation of Iraqi illusory sovereignty by bombing any target within Iraqi territory without prior coordination with the Iraqi authorities to spare civilians the effects of such operations." |
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