Iran’s attacks on Kurdish parties’ sites in KRI report casualties

Iranian shelling of sites of Kurdish opposition parties in the KRI
Iranian shelling of sites of Kurdish opposition parties in the KRI

QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – On Wednesday, two individuals, at least, were killed and about 15 others were wounded in an Iranian attack on a site of an anti-Iran Kurdish group in Koya in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI).

Islamic Revolutionary Guards Forces (IRGF) 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.”  

Kurdistan Freedom Party, an anti-Iran party in Koya area in the KRI, was hit with missiles, resulting in human casualties.

However, the party has not revealed the extent of losses caused by the attack.

Local media outlets cited health directors in Koya as saying that two individuals were killed and about 15 others were wounded in an initial toll.

A prominent member of Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan told North Press Iranian drones targeted the party’s positions in Zarkoz area in Sulaymaniyah Governorate.

So far, no accurate information has been received about impacts or damages of the attack.

These events come in a series of Iranian artillery attacks, which have been continuing for four day, on the border strip with Iran north of Erbil.

Local media outlets revealed that the new Iranian artillery shelling targeted the outskirts of Mawat District in Sulaymaniyah.

The recent attacks have been the largest and widest to be launched against Iranian-Kurdish opposition parties in the KRI since 2018 when headquarters of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (DPIK) in Koya was pummeled.

Iran has intensified its attacks against Kurdish opposition parties in a time when protests broke out across the country, particularly the Kurdish areas in northwest Iran, expressing anger over the killing of a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini at hands of the Iranian morality police two weeks ago.

On September 16, Amini died in Kasra hospital days after being detained by the Iranian police for allegedly not complying with the country’s hijab regulations.

On September 17, the funeral procession of Amini taking place in the Aychi cemetery in Saqez of Kurdistan turned into a protest by mourners who chanted anti-government slogans.