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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Iran 'Defends' Strikes on Northern Iraq, in Letter to UN

A Kurdish flag is pictured amid the destruction caused by a reported Iranian rocket in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region. (Photo by SAFIN HAMED/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran told the UN on Thursday that it had no choice but to act in self-defense by striking Kurdish rebel groups in northern Iraq, state media reported.

The Iranian republic has launched a series of cross-border missile and drone strikes on Iranian-Kurdish opposition groups, based in Iraq, which it blames for stoking protests back home over the death of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini.

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