RFE: Iran's Revolutionary Guards Confirm Deadly Missile Strikes On Kurdish Rebels In Iraq
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) says it was behind a rocket assault on an Iranian Kurdish rebel group in Iraq that killed at least 11 people.
In a September 9 statement carried by Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency, the IRGC said it fired seven missiles in the attack a day earlier on the armed opposition group in northern Iraq.
"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 statement said.
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Update #1: Iran's IRGC confirms firing 7 missiles at Iraq-based terrorists (Press TV - Iran)
Update #2: Iraq Protests Strikes as Iran Confirms Attacking Kurdish Rebels -- Bloomberg
WNU Editor: It is also a message to Baghdad .... Iran’s attack on Kurds is a message to Washington, Riyadh and Jerusalem (Jerusalem Post).
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- April 24, 2018