Nine reported killed as protest-hit Iran targets dissidents in Iraq

Iran targets Kurdish dissidents after unrest erupted over the death of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian Kurdish woman

Smoke rises from the Iraqi Kurdistan headquarters of the Kurdistan Freedom Party, after Iran's Revolutionary Guards' strike on the outskirts of Kirkuk, Iraq on September 28 2022. Picture: REUTERS/AKO RASHEED

Nine people were killed and 32 wounded in the attacks near Erbil and Sulaimaniya in Iraqi Kurdistan, its health minister, Saman Barazanchi, said in a statement. A senior member of Komala, an exiled Iranian Kurdish opposition party, told Reuters that several of their offices were struck as well. “This operation will continue with our full determination until the threat is effectively repelled, terrorist group bases are dismantled and the authorities of the Kurdish region assume their obligations and responsibilities,” the Guards said in a statement read on state television.

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