The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has fired ballistic missiles at eight targets near the U.S. consulate in Erbil, the administrative center of Iraqi Kurdistan, in retaliation for the “recent terrorist crimes”.
Citing the IRGC, Iranian state agency Tasnim reports that the base of Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, in Erbil — where, according to the Iranian side, terrorist attacks had been planned — was destroyed in missile attacks.
As ABC writes, the air traffic in Erbil was halted because the airport was subjected to a “violent” attack. Coalition forces shot down three drones near the airport, Reuters reports. Two high-ranking U.S. officials said no U.S. facilities were impacted.
ABC’s sources in the Iraqi National Security Service say four people were killed, and five were injured in the attack; the U.S. forces suffered no losses.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has also announced it attacked facilities of the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria.
To remind, on Jan. 3, on the fourth anniversary of the assassination of the former commander of the IRGC division Quds Force, Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the Islamic State carried out a terrorist attack in the city of Kerman, Iran, killing at least 103 people. Afterward, Tehran promised that the attack would not go unpunished.
