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DUBAI (Reuters) – The Iranian Revolutionary Guards fired seven missiles in an attack on Iraq-based Iranian dissidents who killed at least 11 people on Saturday, the military unit said on Sunday.
Kurdish Iraqi officials said on Saturday that Iran attacked the base of an Iranian-Kurdish armed opposition group in northern Iraq on Saturday, killing at least 11 people and injuring dozens of others.
"In a successful operation, the aerospace unit of the guards, as well as the unit of drones of the army … have targeted a meeting of a criminal group and a center of defense. terrorist training with seven short-range ground-to-ground missiles, "said the Revolutionary Guards. statement from the semi-official Fars news agency.
The statement said the attack was triggered by a decision by "group leaders to ignore the serious warnings of Kurdistan regional government officials about Iran's determination to dismantle their bases and the need to end the actions. terrorist attacks against Iran ".
Armed Iranian Kurdish groups operate in remote, mountainous Iraqi border areas. Despite sporadic clashes between Iranian forces and militants, there is little coordination between Iranian and Iraqi forces on the security of an area that has also been used by the Islamic State to enter Iran .
The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, an armed opposition group fighting for greater autonomy of the Kurdish Iranian community, posted photos and videos of explosions on its Koya site in the semi-autonomous region of Iraq. Twitter.
Turkey has also stepped up its air strikes on the bases of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq this year. He regularly targets the PKK stronghold in the Qandil Mountains, near the border with Iran, where Ankara suspects senior members of the militant group.
Reporting by Dubai newsroom; Editing by David Goodman
