Iran launched cross-border missile and drone strikes on Kurdish opposition groups in northern Iraq on Monday, where local officials reported one dead and eight injured.
An anonymous Iranian military source confirmed that “Iran has carried out drone and missile attacks against the headquarters of terrorist groups in northern Iraq,” according to the Iranian news agency “Fars”.
The mayor of the Iraqi Kurdish city of Koysanjak, Tariq al-Haydari, told AFP news agency that “five Iranian missiles have targeted a building used by the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran”.
“One person died and eight were injured,” said the health ministry of Iraqi Kurdistan.
The attacks also took place elsewhere in the autonomous region of Iraq’s Kurdistan, authorities confirmed, without providing information on the victims of these attacks.
Iran had previously carried out cross-border missile and drone strikes in Iraq’s Kurdistan region in late September, killing more than a dozen people. Iran has previously accused Kurdish armed groups of involvement in nearly two months of protests against the Iranian government, which erupted after the death of 22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini in custody for violating Iran’s strict dress code.
