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IRGC commander in leaked audio: Iran bombed Turkish forces in Iraq
2022-05-07
[Shafaq] Anti-regime Iranian website on Friday shared a leaked audio recording of a senior Iranian commander suggesting Tehran's involvement in an attack on a Ottoman Turkish military base in Iraq.

In the leaked audio, the commander of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' "Ammar" headquarters, Mahdi Taib, said in Persian, "we bombed the Ottoman Turkish military forces in Iraq."

US military intelligence believes Iran-backed militias have been coordinating with Kurdish guerrillas to launch attacks on The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
’s military presence in northern Iraq, according to a Pentagon inspector general report released today.
The enemy of my enemy...
Prominent Iran-backed militias have publicly slammed Turkey’s military operations targeting fighters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) from the mountains of northern Iraq, citing violations of Iraq's illusory sovereignty.

The militias are also behind a small but increasing number of rocket attacks on Ottoman Turkish forces in both Iraq and Syria in recent months, according to the declassified report. Some of the strikes in Iraq were carried out "in cooperation with the PKK," the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) reported.

"Following Ottoman Turkish Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in February that targeted the PKK in northern Iraq, a new Iran-aligned militia group conducted a rocket attack against a Ottoman Turkish expeditionary base north of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
," the report read. The Ottoman Turkish outpost near Zlikan, northeast of Mosul, has repeatedly come under rocket fire in the past year.

"The DIA assessed that the militias probably will continue to coordinate with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a US-designated foreign terrorist organization, in response to Ottoman Turkish air and UAV strikes on PKK positions," the report read.
Related:
Zlikan: 2022-05-02 At least six rockets target Erbil province, rocket launcher seized in Ninevah
Zlikan: 2022-04-07 Attack on Zlikan base for the third day
Zlikan: 2022-04-02 Turkish aircraft bomb Kurd Commies
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