The Revolutionary Guard of attacked targets linked to the terrorist group with ballistic missiles this morning (EI) and “spies of the zionist regime (Israel)” in the territory of and which has caused the death of at least two civilians.

The Revolutionary Guard reported these attacks on its social networks, as reported by the Iranian media Borna News and Press TV, while Iraqi security sources confirmed to EFE that at least eight missiles fell near the consulate of the USA -a building under construction- in Erbilin it Kurdistan Iraqi attack, leaving two civilians dead and four wounded.

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The statement from the Revolutionary Guard points out that the attacks are “in response to recent crimes committed against the Islamic Republic” and which aimed “the headquarters of anti-Iran spies and other terrorist groups in parts of the region”.

The targets were destroyed”, adds the note.

Iraqi security sources consulted by EFE confirmed that the attack in Erbil came from Iranian territory.

In its statement, the Revolutionary Guard points out that the place in Iraqi Kurdistan that it attacked with missiles was “center to develop espionage operations and planning terrorist actions in the region, and especially in our country“espionage”the zionist entity“, as they usually refer in Iran to the State of Israel.

We assure our beloved nation that the offensive operations of the Revolutionary Guard will continue until the last drops of blood of the martyrs are avenged“, adds the statement.

At least 94 people were killed in a double suicide attack on January 3 in the Iranian city of Kermannear the tomb of Qasem Soleimanian Iranian general who headed the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard until he was killed by the US in 2020 in a bombing in Iraq.

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The terrorist group Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, one of the most brutal attacks against civilians committed in decades in Iran, just hours after the explosions.

Since then, Iran has arrested some 35 people linked to the attack, and has stated that at least one of the suicide bombers was a “Israeli with Tajik nationality”.

The supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khameneicalled last week “to crush“to those responsible”hidden” of the attack, in an apparent reference to the United States and Israel.

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