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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Maziar Motamedi

Iran attacks positions in northern Iraq targeting Kurdish groups

Iran supporters hold up signs in support of anti-government protesters in Iran while attending the World Cup in Qatar [Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters]

Tehran, Iran – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has attacked positions in northern Iraq held by Kurdish groups, as anti-government protests continue in Iran’s Kurdish-majority western regions and elsewhere.

The elite force’s ground division confirmed early on Monday that it had hit three areas in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq with missiles and drones and inflicted “heavy damage” on two Kurdish groups that Tehran considers to be “terrorist” organisations.

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