Iran Press/ Middle East: A dozen ballistic missiles launched from outside Iraq have struck the country’s northern Kurdish regional capital Erbil, Kurdish officials say, adding there are no casualties.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, Al Jazeera reported.
Sabereen News, a Telegram news channel associated with Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units – better known by the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha’abi – has elaborated on the attack. “Two advanced Israeli Mossad training centers in Erbil, northern Iraq, were attacked by ballistic missiles,” Sabereen News quoted a security source as saying.
According to the Telegram news channel, six Fateh-110 ballistic missiles hit the new and under construction US Consulate in Erbil.
A US State Department spokesperson on Sunday called it an “outrageous attack” but said no Americans were hurt and there was no damage to US government facilities in Erbil.
Iraqi state TV quoted the semi-autonomous Kurdish region’s counterterrorism force as saying 12 missiles launched from outside Iraq hit Erbil.
The development came days after Monday’s missile attack in Syria, in which Israel hit positions south of Damascus, martyring two Iranian military advisors and leaving some material damage.
Iran’s IRGC named the martyrs as Colonel EhsanKarbalayi-Poor and Colonel Morteza Saeed-Nezhad.
Tehran has strongly condemned Israel's recent attack on the Syrian capital that led to the martyrdom of two Iranian military advisors with the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), saying the occupying regime’s crime “will not go unpunished.”
Also, Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations said the Islamic Republic considers itself rightful to defend itself and its interests against the Israeli regime’s acts of terrorism.
Meanwhile, Al Mayadeen cited sources as saying that the attack did not target any Iraqi or US facility, affirming that the Mossad site on the way to Saladin resort was destroyed, and enemy collaborators were killed and wounded.
“The operation against the Mossad has nothing to do with the latest Israeli attack in Syria”, the sources told Al Mayadeen.
The sources said that this operation is a response to previous Israeli attacks against Iran that were launched from Iraqi Kurdistan, stressing that the Iranian response to the killing of the 2 IRGC soldiers in Syria at the hands of "Israel" will take place in due course.
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