Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) have launched missile strikes against several “terrorist” targets in Syria and the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
Iran's official government news agency, IRNA as quoted AFPTuesday (16/1/2023), said the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps destroyed “a spy base” and “a collection of anti-Iran terrorist groups” in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region.
The Revolutionary Guards then attacked with ballistic missiles in Syria “a gathering place of commanders and key elements linked to recent terrorist operations, in particular the ISIS group”.
He added that the attacks in Syria were “a response to the recent crimes committed by terrorist groups that unjustly killed a group of our colleagues in Kerman and Rask.”
On January 3, suicide bombers attacked a crowd gathered near the grave of revered IRGC General Qasem Soleimani in the southern city of Kerman.
The attack, for which the Islamic State group later claimed responsibility, killed around 90 people and left dozens injured.
Iran's intelligence ministry said one of the suicide bombers was a Tajik national, while the identities of the others had not been determined.
In December, at least 11 Iranian police officers were killed in a jihadist-claimed attack on a police station in Rask, in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan.
The attack was claimed by Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice) in a brief statement on its Telegram channel. The insurgency was formed in 2012 and blacklisted by Iran as a “terrorist” group.
The IRGC also said it had struck suspected Israeli targets, and announced “missile strikes and the destruction of the Zionist regime's (Mossad) spy base in the Kurdistan region of Iraq”, reported IRNA.
“This headquarters is the center for developing espionage operations and planning terrorist acts in the region,” he said.
In November 2022, Iran launched a missile attack and drones cross-border against an Iranian-Kurdish opposition group based in northern Iraq accusing it of fueling a wave of protests in the Islamic republic.
The attack came just after protests began in Iran over the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, an Iranian Kurd who was detained for allegedly violating Iran's strict dress code for women.
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