ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s foreign ministry on Monday “strongly” condemned the neighbouring Iran’s missile and drone attacks which killed two and injured several others in the Kurdistan Region earlier in the day.
The ministry “condemns, in strong and repeated terms, the artillery and drone attacks carried out by Iran this morning against a number of areas of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq which martyred and injured a number of safe people,” read a statement by the ministry.
It added that such attacks will not lead to the resolution of issues but bring “confusion and raise the level of tension in it.”
At least four missiles targeted the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) near Koya on Monday morning, nearly two months since the deadly Iranian strikes on Kurdish opposition parties in the same town.
The Iraqi foreign ministry also said it will "take high-level diplomatic measures in this regard, without hesitation in preserving and safeguarding Iraq's sovereignty, in a manner that enhances the security of its people."
Saman Barzinji, the Kurdistan Region’s health minister, told Rudaw that at least one person has been killed and eight others have been wounded so far as a result of the attacks.
Osman Khalili, a senior member of Komala, told Rudaw that at least four drones targeted bases of the armed group in Sulaimani’s Zargwez.
Mohammed Salih Qadiri, the KDPI’s representative in Erbil, told Rudaw later in the day that the death toll had risen to two.
Telegram accounts affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed responsibility for the attack.
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