Saturday, March 19, 2022

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard threatens to hit ‘Zionist bases’ in Iraq

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened Friday to strike “Zionist bases” in Iraq, days after lobbing missiles at the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.

“If Iraqi officials do not take action to remove other bases of the Zionists in that country while our security continues to be threatened from this region, we will respond without hesitation,” IRGC spokesman Ramazan Sharif said, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.

“It is our natural right to destroy any base from which any attack is carried out against the security of Iran and this is a redline for us,” he added.

Earlier this week, around 12 Iranian missiles hit targets in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil. Some landed near the US consulate.

Iran claimed it hit Israeli bases in the attack, calling it retaliation for an Israeli strike in Syria that killed two members of its Revolutionary Guard the previous week. READ MORE