The Anti-Terrorism Service in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq announced that the death toll from the Iranian bombing that affected the southern city of Sulaymaniyah had risen to 13 and the injury of 58 others, while the Iraqi Foreign Ministry confirmed that it would hand the Iranian ambassador in Baghdad a note of protest against the background of the bombing.
The Iraqi apparatus stated in a statement that “the Iranian Revolutionary Guard launched a series of attacks at 10:15 a.m. on Wednesday, in 4 phases, in which it used ballistic missiles and booby-trapped drones to target several headquarters.”
The statement said, “More than 70 (Fateh) ballistic missiles and booby-trapped drones were launched from inside Iranian territory in 4 stages.”
The first stage included only ballistic missiles, while the second stage included ballistic missiles and booby-trapped drones, the third was ballistic missiles with the support of surveillance planes, and in the fourth stage only ballistic missiles were used.
He pointed out that the targeted headquarters included “the headquarters of the Kurdistan Freedom Party, the Kurdistan Democratic Party-Iran in Koysanjak, the headquarters of the Iranian Kurdistan Toilers group in Sulaymaniyah, the residence camp of Iran’s Kurds in the Zarkuiz, Zarkweizle, and Bankoura areas in Sulaymaniyah, and the Azadi, Qal’a (Qila) and Amiriya camps in Koysanjak.” .
He added that “public places such as kindergartens, schools, health centers, hospitals, event halls, service cars and civilian homes were also targeted.”