Baghdad summons Iranian ambassador protest note
ERBIL, KRI, Iraq (North Press) – Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Thursday that it summoned the Iranian ambassador to Iraq and handed him a protest note over the Iranian attacks against Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI).
On September 28, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targeted several sites of what Iran said to be anti-Iran Kurdish separatist groups situated on the Iraqi-Iranian border strip in the KRI with “precision missiles” and “suicide drones,” causing casualties.
In a statement, the Iraqi News Agency said, quoting the spokesperson of the Ministry, Ahmed al-Sahhaf, as saying, “The Iranian ambassador in Baghdad will be summoned urgently to hand him a strongly worded letter of protest due to the continuous bombing operations on areas in the Kurdistan region.”
On the same day, the Iraq Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kurdistan Region Government, international embassies and consulates condemned the Iranian attacks and considered them as “a violation of sovereignty.”
The Iranian attack, the severest one since the 2018 attack, was launched against sites of an anti-Iran Kurdish group in Koya in the KRI, killing 13 individuals and injuring 58 others.
Since September 16, dozens of Iranian cities have witnessed massive demonstrations, denouncing the killing of a Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iranian police.
Since September 24, Iranian forces have shelled several border areas in the KRI, under the pretext of targeting military sites for anti-Iranian forces. The attack