Iran's military forces recently carried out heavy air strikes on bases belonging to Iranian Kurdish militia groups in Iraqi Kurdistan. These unprecedented attacks underscore Tehran’s fear that these militias could become more offensive amid the instability fuelled by the war with Israel and the US.
On July 1 and 2, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) hit a Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) camp near Erbil in Iraq's Kurdistan region with two ballistic missiles and two drones. Fighters from this Iranian Kurdish militia are established in this region of eastern Iraq, near the border with the Islamic Republic.
