Strikes On Iranian Opposition Groups In Iraq's Kurdistan

(MENAFN- Jordan Times) ERBIL, Iraq - Several strikes hit Kurdish Iranian militants in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region on Saturday, officials from the exiled groups told AFP.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Saturday morning they had targeted “separatist groups” in Iraq’s Kurdistan, as the war against Israel and the United States entered its second week.

The autonomous region hosts camps and rear bases operated by several Iranian Kurdish militant groups that have repeatedly come under Iranian fire since the war began.

On Saturday morning, an official from an exiled opposition group told AFP that drones had struck positions belonging to three Iranian Kurdish parties in the Erbil region, including the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan [PDKI] and the Komala party, without causing casualties.

In the night, attacks hit positions belonging to the Komala party, killing one fighter and wounding three, in the Sulaimaniyah region, an official from the group said.

Earlier, the Revolutionary Guards said in a statement carried by Tasnim news agency that “three locations of separatist groups in the Iraqi region (of Kurdistan) were hit… this morning.”

“If separatist groups in the region make any move against Iran’s territorial integrity, we will crush them,” the Guards added.

Tehran threatened to target “all the facilities” of Kurdistan if militants were allowed to enter the Islamic republic.

The Iraqi government and the autonomous region said Friday that Iraq must not be a launchpad for attacks against neighbouring countries, following reports that militants might attempt to cross into Iran.

Iraq’s border guard commander Mohammed Sukar said Saturday that the Iraq-Iran border was secure, and there had been no attempt to infiltrate Iran, according to the Iraqi News Agency [INA].

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