Armored units and special forces of the Revolutionary Guards in Iran have been dispatched to the Kurdish regions of the country, the scene of recent skirmishes involving armed opposition factions, the commander of the land forces of the Iranian forces said on Friday. Guardians.
“At the moment, armored units and special forces of the Revolutionary Guards army are leaving for the western and northwestern borders of the country,” said General Mohammad Pakpour, quoted by the Tasnim local agency.
“This movement of ground forces aims to reinforce the units located on the border and prevent the infiltration of terrorist groups affiliated with the separatist groups operating in the northern region of Iraq,” he said.
On Tuesday, General Pakpour had “advised” residents near “areas adjacent to the bases of terrorist groups to evacuate them so as not to be injured during the operations of the Guardians”, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic of Iran .
Twice since Sunday, the Revolutionary Guards have targeted with missiles and suicide drones the bases of several armed groups of the Iranian Kurdish opposition, established for decades in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Tehran denounces attacks on its territory carried out according to the Iranian authorities by groups infiltrated from Iraq.
But the authorities mainly accuse these groups of encouraging the demonstrations which have shaken Iran since the death on September 16 of the young Iranian Kurd Mahsa Amini.
Tehran justified Thursday in a letter to the UN Security Council its bombardments in Iraqi Kurdistan, claiming to have had “no other choice” to protect itself from “terrorist groups”.
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