IRGC Attacks Iraqi Territory Again Targeting ‘PJAK Positions in Choman Region’

Continuing its attacks on Iraqi territory, and coinciding with the eleventh day of protests in dozens of Iranian cities, the IRGC military force also attacked northern Iraq on Tuesday with the aim of striking the headquarters of Iranian Kurdish groups.

According to Mehr news agency, after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targeted the mountainous highlands of Iraq’s Kurdistan region on Monday, it continued these attacks on Tuesday, the fifth of Mehr.

According to Mehr, the IRGC Ground Force destroyed “the positions of the terrorist group PJAK in the Choman region on the Iran-Iraq border strip” on Tuesday morning.

In this context, the Kurdistan 24 website wrote on Tuesday that the IRGC “targeted one of the villages in the outskirts of Choman” with a drone.

Tasnim news agency, affiliated with the IRGC, had said on the fourth of Mehr that a new round of IRGC attacks had begun “in response to separatists’ support for the ongoing unrest” in Iran.

The IRGC specifically referred to two parties, Komala and the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, and said these parties were involved in “creating unrest and riots” in border cities.

According to Tasnim, the IRGC Ground Force, along with artillery and drone units and using “smart” and “precision” weapons, attacked the headquarters of Kurdish groups.

There has been no report yet from the central Baghdad government or the autonomous government of Iraq’s Kurdistan region regarding the new round of IRGC attacks on the region’s territory.

In the attack on Saturday, the second of Mehr, the IRGC had claimed to have inflicted “heavy damage” on the “training centers” of Kurdish parties, but members of Kurdish party forces in Iraq’s Erbil region said the attack “caused no casualties or material damage.”

According to Kurdish sources in northern Iraq, areas near the city of Oshnavieh in West Azerbaijan province were the target of the IRGC’s initial attack.

Hours before that, hundreds of young people from Oshnavieh took control of the city last weekend for at least a few hours, and security forces withdrew from the streets by taking a defensive position.

The situation that occurred in Oshnavieh apparently raised concerns among IRGC officials that such conditions could be repeated in some other cities and security forces could lose control of the situation.

The Islamic Republic’s state television, under the pretext of some limited slogans in support of Kurdish groups and parties raised in the recent widespread protests in Kurdish-populated areas of Iran, is struggling to misrepresent reports continuously in order to portray the protesters as deployed operatives and armed pawns of these parties.

The death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish girl from Saqqez who had traveled to Tehran with her family two weeks earlier but died three days after being arrested by the “morality police,” initially sparked a wave of anger in the cities of Sanandaj and Saqqez in Kurdistan province, which immediately spread to more than a hundred cities across Iran, and slogans demanding the overthrow of Iran’s entire system are now being featured as the main axis of protest demonstrations.

Source: Radio Farda