Iranian drones attack Kurdish opposition bases in Kurdistan Region: PDKI

According to a Kurdish armed group opposing Tehran, Iran’s Air Force launched an aerial attack on its bases over the border into the Kurdistan Region on Sunday, injuring one and causing environmental damage.

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – According to a Kurdish armed group opposing Tehran, Iran’s Air Force launched an aerial attack on its bases over the border into the Kurdistan Region on Sunday, injuring one and causing environmental damage.

The attack occurred as the Kurdistan Region was holding it's regional parliamentary election.

"Iran’s terrorist regime used drones in attacking Peshmerga bases. Unfortunately, one Peshmerga was injured in the Iranian attack," read a statement of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) released shortly after the attack.

The PDKI said that the incident took place at noon on Mount Kodo, which is within the Kurdistan Region's Choman district, adjacent to the Iranian district of Piranshahr.

Iran intermittently shells territory along the border in areas Tehran claims Iranian Kurdish (Rojhilati) opposition parties operate. However, such bombardment often also does significant damage to the houses, farms, and livestock of local residents.

On Sept. 8, Iranian rockets targeted the headquarters of both the PDKI and the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Iran (KDP-I), as well as an Iranian Kurdish refugee camp in the Kurdistan Region’s town of Koya. The bombardment killed 14 members from the two parties and injured 40 more, with two other members still missing. The attack received international attention and widespread condemnation.

In response, the two parties promised intensification of resistance and continued struggle against Tehran.

Iran later claimed to have conducted the operation by launching seven domestically-produced missiles from a 220-kilometer distance from the Iranian province of East Azerbaijan.

After an unknown assailant shot a Rojhilati man living and working as a policeman in the Kurdistan Region in the head on Tuesday, a member of his family Told Kurdistan 24 that he had connections to a Rojhilati opposition group and accused Tehran of being behind the attack. The gunman's pistol was equipped with a silencer, illegal in the region.

The victim's sister charged that Iran had received help with the logistics of the attack from unknown persons inside the Kurdistan region, saying, "This was an act of terrorism against my brother."

Editing by John J. Catherine