Iran has launched a rare cross-border attack targeting an opposition group in neighboring Iraq over the weekend, state media says.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) sent drones atainst the headquarters of the Iranian Kurdish opposition group Komala in the Balisan region of Iraqi Kurdistan late Saturday, Mehr news agency said, and as reported in Bloomberg.
Signage of the Komala Toilers of Kurdistan in Sulaimani's Surdash area, via social mediaThe drone strike inflicted "significant damage and casualties" - state media indicated.
There's been an intensified targeting of Kurdish dissident groups of late, given that in the opening months of Trump's Operation Epic Fury, US and Israeli officials openly talked about arming Kurdish groups along the Iran-Iraq border area.
One Middle East outlet notes in wake of the latest IRGC action: "The Revolutionary Guards have not immediately claimed responsibility for the strikes on these fighters, whom Iran accuses of being supported by Israel, its sworn enemy."
Asharq-Awsat reports of a prior similar cross-border strike this summer, "In the most deadly recent attack, nine Komala members were killed on July 17 near the city of Sulaymaniyah."
Kurdish and Middle East regional news sources are at the same time saying Iran's military is building up artillery and personnel in the country's northwest Kurdish regions bordering Iraq amid an intensifying crackdown on Kurdish opposition groups, and as Israel and the US threaten new attacks.
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