The IRGC launched extensive attacks on US bases in Iraq on Friday, including U.S. bases in Erbil and the camps of armed Iranian Kurdish groups in Sulaimaniyah province. Evidently, the Iranians believed that some kind of cross-border operation was being prepared, and that the IRGC had to act to disrupt those plans. Middle East Spectator posted video showing fires and secondary explosions from Kurdish weapons dumps. Friday’s strikes capped several days of such Iranian attacks.
According to Rudaw, the Erbil-based Kurdish news service, the Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT), a US-based human rights organization that monitors conflicts, reported Friday that since the late-February onset of the Iran war, “30 people have lost their lives and 114 others have been injured” in the Kurdistan Region in attacks launched by Iran and “its affiliated groups in Iraq.”
“We strongly condemn the attacks on the Kurdistan Region,” the Region’s Presidency said in a statement on X, calling the targeting and “the resumption of violence” a “dangerous escalation and a blatant violation” of sovereignty, according to an earlier Rudaw report. “These attacks threaten the stability of the country and hinder peace efforts in the region,” the Presidency added.
The remarks reportedly came shortly after the Kurdish dissident group Komala Toilers of Kurdistan reported Friday that nine of its members were killed and several others wounded in a missile attack on one of its bases in the Kurdistan Region’s eastern Sulaimani province.
