Because of protests in Iran: Revolutionary Guards attack Kurdish positions in Iraq

There has been unrest in Iran for more than two months. The mullah regime blames Iranian-Kurdish exile groups in northern Iraq, among others, and is cracking down on them as usual: bombing their bases.

Iran has again attacked Iranian-Kurdish opposition groups in northern Iraq during the night. “The Revolutionary Guards have again bombed Iranian-Kurdish parties,” said the anti-terror service of the autonomous region of Kurdistan in Iraq, without giving any information on possible victims. The Iranian Kurdistan Democratic Party (PDKI) and the nationalist Iranian Kurdish organization Komala said the Iranian attacks were aimed at them.

These “indiscriminate attacks” are happening at a time when “the Iranian terror regime” is unable to stop the ongoing protests in Iranian Kurdistan, the PDKI said on Twitter. The Iraqi state news agency INA also reported “Iranian rocket fire and drone strikes” targeting “three Iranian opposition parties in Kurdistan” in Iraq.

A week ago, Tehran used rockets and drones to attack groups in the Kurdistan region of Iraq that she had classified as “terrorist”. Tehran accuses Iranian-Kurdish exile groups in northern Iraq of fueling the nationwide protests in Iran. Kurdish organizations have been supporting the protests in Iran since the death of the young Kurd Mahsa Amini and denouncing the violence against demonstrators.

The young woman was arrested by the vice squad in Tehran on September 13 for allegedly not wearing her headscarf properly. She died a short time later in hospital. Activists accuse the police of abusing Amini. Since the young woman’s death, many compatriots have vented their anger publicly, and thousands have taken to the streets. In the Iranian Kurdish regions, most recently in the city of Mahabad, the security apparatus is cracking down on demonstrators.

The Revolutionary Guards are the elite unit of the armed forces in Iran and far more important than the classic army. They report directly to the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say in all strategic matters.