Iran strikes northern Iraq, Kurdish fighter die

ARBIL, Iraq (AFP) — At least one fighter was killed in fresh Iranian strikes on Kurdish opposition groups based in northern Iraq, an Iranian-Kurdish party said Monday.

“A member of the peshmerga was killed in an Iranian strike on the area of Koysinjaq,” also known as Koya, late Sunday, Ali Boudaghi, an official from the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, told AFP.

The strikes were launched late Sunday, a week after similar attacks on the factions Tehran accuses of stoking the protests rocking the Islamic republic.

Iran has been shaken by two months of protests sparked by the death of Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, 22, who died in custody days after her arrest by the morality police for allegedly breaching the country’s strict dress code for women.

Iran’s “Revolutionary Guard Corps have again bombarded Iranian Kurdish parties,” the counter-terrorism department of Iraqi Kurdistan said, without mentioning if there were casualties.

The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan said Iran had targeted it with missiles and suicide drones in Koya and Jejnikan, near Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.

“These indiscriminate attacks are occurring at a time when the terrorist regime of Iran is unable to stop the ongoing demonstrations in (Iranian) Kurdistan,” the PDKI, the oldest Kurdish party in Iran, said.

Iranian Kurdish nationalist group Komala said strikes had also targeted its installations in northern Iraq.

“Our HQ was once again attacked by the Islamic Regime tonight. We’ve been carefully prepared for these types of attacks and have no losses for the moment,” it said on Twitter.