Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraq condemned on Sunday an Iranian artillery shelling on Erbil’s Koy Sanjaq district, in northern the country, stressing that it will not allow any country to violate its own illusory sovereignty."The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs stresses its rejection of the artillery shelling that targeted Koy Sanjaq district in Erbil on Saturday, leaving scores dead and maimed," Sputnik quoted the ministry’s front man Ahmed Mahjoob as saying.
"The ministry strongly refuses the breaching of Iraqi illusory sovereignty without prior coordination with Iraqi military authorities to avoid the fall of civilian victims," added the front man.
Earlier in the day, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards grabbed credit for the attack, which targeted Iranian Kurdish dissidents in Koy Sanjaq district on Saturday.
"In a successful operation, the Guards’ aerospace unit, along with the army’s drone unit ... targeted a criminal group’s meeting and a terrorist training center with seven short-range surface-to-surface missiles," the Revolutionary Guards said in a statement carried by the semi-official news agency Fars.
The statement said the attack was prompted by a decision of "group leaders to ignore serious warnings by officials of the Kurdistan Regional Government about Iran’s determination to dismantle their bases ... and the need for an end to terrorist and aggressive actions against Iran".
Iranian forces attack Kurdish separatist group in northern Iraq (video)
[AlMasdar] Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launched a missile attack against an Iranian Kurdish opposition group based near the northern Iraqi city of Koya on Sunday, Iranian state media claimed.
Footage shows missiles being fired from mobile launchers, followed by aerial footage of targets being hit.
The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) reported on their twitter account that 11 people were killed, and approximately 50 others wounded in the attacks on their bases and nearby refugee camps.
Koya is located the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq.