Iranian Foreign Ministry: We have repeatedly warned Iraq about attacks by third parties against us

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[size=52]Iranian Foreign Ministry: We have repeatedly warned Iraq about attacks by third parties against us[/size]

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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh speaks at a press conference yesterday (AFP)

[size=45]Yesterday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said that Tehran had repeatedly warned the Iraqi authorities that the territory of Iraq should not be used by third parties to launch attacks against Iran, at a time when the Revolutionary Guards Agency said that it carried messages to Iran's neighbors, who had set up Relations with Israel, in addition to Iran's refusal to negotiate over its missile program, whether it reached an agreement in Vienna or not.[/size]
[size=45]Khatibzadeh was speaking the day after the Revolutionary Guards claimed responsibility for firing 10 ballistic missiles, in an unprecedented attack on the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region, apparently targeting the United States and its allies. The Revolutionary Guards said that they targeted "strategic centers" in Erbil, and Iranian media said that the missile strikes came in retaliation after Israeli air strikes that killed members of the Quds Force, the foreign arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Syria.[/size]
[size=45]"The Iraqi central government is responsible for ensuring that a third party does not use its territory as a base to launch attacks on Iran," Khatibzadeh said. He added, "Iraq's territory has been used repeatedly before against Iran by third parties, including terrorist groups such as Kurdish fighters, the United States and the Zionist entity," referring to Israel.[/size]
[size=45]Khatibzadeh's statements came after information reported by Iranian sites and other militias affiliated with them that the attack came in response to an Israeli bombing of a military site in the city of Kermanshah, which includes underground ballistic missile bases.[/size]
[size=45]The IRGC's "Tasnim" agency had attributed to an informed source that "some of the evil actions of the Zionists against Iran were launched from Iraqi lands, so the guards wanted to punish them in those lands."[/size]
[size=45]In the middle of last month, "Noor News" website of the Supreme National Security Council announced that a fire had occurred at a base belonging to the "Revolutionary Guard" in the Mahidasht area of ​​Kermanshah province, western Iran, without causing any casualties, pointing out that the fire occurred in a warehouse for oils. Engines and other flammable materials.[/size]
[size=45]Last January, huge explosions were heard in 4 western provinces, including Kermanshah, but the authorities returned the source of those sounds to the "thunderbolts".[/size]
[size=45]Kermanshah, which is predominantly Kurdish, includes underground missile bases for the Revolutionary Guards. And last December, it was reported that the "Guards" launched 16 ballistic missiles in its maneuvers from those bases. The Revolutionary Guards said, the day before yesterday, that it launched the missiles from the northwest of the country. Videos on social networks showed that the missiles were launched from Kermanshah, and Tabriz, the center of East Azerbaijan Province, in the northwest of the country. The Revolutionary Guards used ten Fateh-110 missiles, which were launched in the September 2018 attack from the Tabatabai base in Tabriz, and bombed the headquarters of the opposition Kurdistan Democratic Party in Koyshang, between Erbil and Sulaymaniyah.[/size]
[size=45]And Fars News Agency wrote in an article yesterday that the attacks came in response to an Israeli bombing that targeted a headquarters of the Revolutionary Guards in the suburb of Damascus. The article claimed, without providing any evidence, that "9 Israeli officers were killed in exchange for two Guards officers." He added, "The missile step is the beginning of governance. If it continues, we will see a large number of highly accurate missiles over Haifa and Tel Aviv, with hands ready to pull the trigger."[/size]
[size=45]The agency wrote that the "clear message" of the rocket fire on Erbil is directed at neighbors who have relations with Israel.[/size]
[size=45]In the other message carried by the missile move, the agency indicated that it was “a clear message to the Western parties and America (...) that missiles are an integral part of the Iranian defense force, and this policy cannot be harmed, whether the Vienna negotiations reached a result or not.”[/size]
[size=45]London - Tehran: Asharq Al-Awsat[/size]
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