Cross-Border Strikes Launched Against Kurdish Groups In Iraq

Iran has launched a series of strikes against Kurdish opposition groups in northern Iraq, reports Agence France-Presse.

On Monday, Iranian officials said that drone and missile attacks had been conducted against “the headquarters of terrorist parties in the northern region of Iraq,” reported the semi-official Fars news agency.

Five Iranian missiles targeted a building used by the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, said Tariq al-Haidari, the mayor of Koysanjaq in Iraqi Kurdistan.

One person was killed and eight injured in the attack, said the regional health ministry.

Other missiles struck elsewhere in the autonomous Kurdistan region, although no casualty figures were provided by regional officials.

Tehran has accused Kurdish opposition groups in northern Iraq of stoking violence in Iran following nationwide protests that broke out in September after the death of a Kurdish-Iranian woman while in the custody of the Iranian morality police.