DOHA, October 1 – Novosti. Iran resumed bombing strikes on Kurdistan’s capital, Erbil, on Saturday, a security source told the Shafaq news agency.
“The bombing was aimed at the Similan area in the area. The shelling did not cause casualties, but the bombings are repeated,” he added.
Acting Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kazemi chaired a meeting of the government’s national security council, during which the participants condemned the Iranian bombing that caused great damage. They declared “the rejection of attempts to use Iraq as an arena for settling scores.”
The meeting recommended that the government “remove everything that is contrary to the principle of good neighborliness that Iraq believes in and adheres to in relations with its neighbors, as well as address security challenges through diplomatic channels and on the basis of joint security cooperation.”
The Iranian Armed Forces have been continuing shelling a number of areas in the Kurdish Autonomous Region in northern Iraq for a week now. In the affected areas, the rubble continues to be cleared at the site of the destroyed buildings, there are missing people.
Earlier Wednesday, a source in the Iraqi security authorities told Novosti that the Iranian armed forces used artillery and mined drones to strike at a number of areas in Iraqi Kurdistan , including the Kurdistan Freedom Party’s facilities in the Kuysanjak district of Erbil province . During the shelling, four party activists were killed, and more than 20 were injured.
At least 13 people were killed and 58 injured, most of them civilians, in the attacks, according to the Iraqi Kurdistan Counter-Terrorism Authority.
The Iraqi Foreign Ministry on Thursday handed a note of protest to the Iranian ambassador over the ongoing shelling.
In turn, the League of Arab States condemned the actions of the Iranian Armed Forces, calling on Tehran to respect international law and stop arbitrariness against Iraq.
