Iran attacks Islamic State targets and “Zionist spies” with missiles

The Revolutionary Guard of Iran attacked this morning with missiles ballistic targets linked to the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) and “spies of the Zionist regime (Israel)” in the territory of Iraq and Syria, which has caused the death of at least two civilians.

The Revolutionary Guard reported these attacks on their social networks, according to the Iranian media Borna News and Press TV, while Iraqi security sources confirmed to EFE that at least eight missiles fell near the US consulate – a building in construction – in Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, and left two civilians dead and four injured.

The statement from the Revolutionary Guard points out that the attacks are “in response to recent crimes committed against the Islamic Republic” and which had as their objective “the headquarters of anti-Iran spies and other terrorist groups in parts of the region.”

“The targets were destroyed”, adds the note. Iraqi security sources consulted by EFE confirmed that the attack in Erbil came from Iranian territory.

In its statement, the Revolutionary Guard points out that the place in Iraqi Kurdistan that it attacked with missiles was the “center to develop espionage operations and planning terrorist actions in the region, and especially in our country” of espionage “the Zionist entity”, as they usually refer to the State of Israel in Iran.

“We assure our beloved nation that the offensive operations of the Revolutionary Guard will continue until the last drops of blood of the martyrs are avenged.”adds the statement.

At least 94 people were killed in a double suicide bombing on January 3 in the Iranian city of Kerman, near the grave of Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian general who headed the Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force until he was killed by the US. USA in 2020 in a bombing in Iraq.

The Islamic State terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack, one of the most brutal attacks against civilians committed in decades in Iran, just hours after the explosions.

Iran has since detained about 35 people linked to the attack, and has claimed that at least one of the suicide bombers was a “Israeli with Tajik nationality.”

Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, called last week “to crush” to those responsible “hidden” of the attack, in an apparent reference to the United States and Israel.