Two days after the bombings against organizations accused of fomenting unrest in the country.
Tehran went ahead again today to missile attacks and drone strikes against positions of the Kurds of Irantwo days after the bombings against organizations it accuses of fomenting unrest in the country.
The Iranian government accuses these movements, which have been targeted many times in the past, of encouraging the protests that have rocked the country since September 16, over the death of a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by the morality police.
On Sunday night, rockets and kamikaze drones fired by the Revolutionary Guards hit bases of several opposition organizations, killing one person. Today, the Guards’ ground forces launched “a new series of attacks against terrorist organizations” in Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported. “The general staff of the separatist terrorist organization Pak (Kurdistan Freedom Party) was targeted by missiles and kamikaze drones,” the agency added.
These attacks took place in the area of Altun Koupri. “We have taken our measures and evacuated the premises, there are no casualties,” a Pak spokesman, Khalil Nadri, told AFP.
“Today, the Islamic Republic of Iran fired rockets at Iranian opposition groups in two zones,” tweeted a spokesman for the autonomous Kurdistan government, Laouk Ghafouri, referring to the city of Perdi (aka the Kurdish name of Altun Koupri ) and the area of Degala, east of Arbil, the regional capital.
The area of Altun Koupri is under the control of the Peshmerga, the military forces of the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, but it is one of the disputed zones with the federal government in Baghdad.
Kurdish Iranian organizations based in Iraq since the 1980s are labeled “terrorist” by Tehran, which accuses them of launching attacks on Iranian soil. However, according to experts, after having waged an armed struggle for a long time, these groups – which are often close to the extreme left – have almost stopped their military action. But they continue their political activism and denounce the discrimination against Iran’s Kurdish minority (about 10 million out of a total of 83 million inhabitants), such as the ban on the teaching of the Kurdish language in schools.
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