Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed responsibility for bombings in Iraq and Syria, killing at least four people.
IRGC claimed it targeted Israel’s Mossad headquarters in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, where “anti-Iran terrorist groups” gathered to plan out attacks on Iran.
According to the Revolutionary Guards, the attack was a “response to the recent evil acts of the Zionist regime in martyring IRGC and resistance commanders,” apparently referring to a strike in Syria that killed high-ranking IRGC Brig. Gen. Razi Mousavi and a pair of separate attacks in Lebanon that killed Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri and senior Hezbollah military commander Wissam al-Tawil. Both Arouri and Tawil had close links with Iran.“We assure our nation that the Guards’ offensive operations will continue until avenging the last drops of martyrs’ blood,” the IRGC statement says.
The “Mossad headquarters” supposedly also had those who planned and executed the suicide attack at the commemoration of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani.
The missiles killed four people, “including Peshraw Dizayee, the prominent Kurdish businessman,” and injured six people.
The IRGC missed the nearby American Consulate.
The IRGC struck Islamic State locations in Syria for one of the same reasons as Erbil: the attack on the crowd at a commemoration of Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleimani.
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