Iran’s IRGC shells ‘terrorist positions’ in Iraq’s Erbil

The assault comes two months after the IRGC launched ballistic missiles at what it stated was an Israeli base in Erbil.

The home of Kurdish businessman Baz Karim Barzanji in Erbil, Iraq, which was broken by an Iranian ballistic missile assault in March [File: Amina Ismail/Reuters]

Tehran, Iran – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has shelled an space in Erbil in neighbouring Iraq, focusing on positions it stated had been held by “terrorist teams”.

The IRGC floor forces launched artillery hearth on Iraq’s northern Kurdish regional capital early on Wednesday, based on the semi-official Tasnim information web site.

There have been no reviews of casualties within the shelling.

The IRGC’s web site stated in an announcement that its floor forces dismantled an Erbil-based “terrorist staff” inside Iran a day earlier and 5 members of the staff had been arrested in Baneh close to Iran’s western border with Iraq.

Based mostly on their confessions about plans to have interaction in “sabotage” operations in Iran, it stated, the IRGC floor forces moved to focus on their bases in northern Iraq.

In mid-March, the IRGC launched ballistic missiles in direction of an space in Erbil which it stated housed an Israeli “strategic centre”. It additionally warned that any additional assaults by Israel will probably be met with a “harsh, decisive and harmful response”.

The missile launches had come after Israel killed two IRGC members in Syria in an air assault. There have been additionally unconfirmed reviews of an Israeli assault on a base in western Iran, which allegedly focused Iranian drones.

On the time, the Iranian overseas ministry had additionally warned that it is not going to tolerate any safety threats emanating from Iraqi soil.

In April, Iraqi International Minister Fuad Hussein and new parliament speaker, Mohammed al-Halbousi, led separate delegations to Tehran to carry high-level conferences with President Ebrahim Raisi and International Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian.