Explosions near the US consulate in Iraqi Kurdistan kill four people

According to an Iraqi security source, explosions were reported this Monday at eight locations near the US Consulate in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. ABC News. Four people died.

Iran has struck targets linked to the “jihadist” group “Islamic State” and “spies of the Zionist regime (Israel)” in Syria and Iraq, where it struck an area near the US consulate.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed responsibility for the attack, claiming it used ballistic missiles and wanted to destroy Mossad headquarters (the headquarters of Israel’s national intelligence service). The targets were “spy headquarters” and “meetings of anti-Iran terrorists in parts of the region.”

The brutality of the explosion led to a halt in air traffic in Erbil. Three drones were shot down near the airport.

“No facilities in the United States were damaged. We are not reporting any damage or injuries to infrastructure at this time,” a US official said. ABC News.

The explosion was a response to a twin attack in Iran in early January that was claimed by the Islamic State.

According to local media, the Iraqi government will hold a security meeting on Tuesday to address Iran’s “violation of Iraqi territory and non-compliance with the security agreement between the two countries.”

Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan Masrour Barzani has already condemned the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacks on Iraqi Erbil in a publication made on the social network X.

“I condemn in the strongest possible terms this cowardly attack on the people of Kurdistan. I call on the federal government of Baghdad to take a principled stand against the violation of the sovereignty of Iraq and the Kurdistan Region,” Barzani said.

Iraqi diplomacy also announced the creation of a commission of inquiry to prove to “Iraqi and international public opinion that the allegations of those responsible for these reprehensible acts are false.”

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