The Kurdish Iranian opposition movements in exile actively denounce the repression of the demonstrations following the death of Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the Police of manners.
Le Monde with AFP
The uncompromising response of Tehran to popular protest goes beyond the country’s borders. Iran carried out, Wednesday, September 28, drone and missile shot against zones from Kurdistan d’Irak from neighboring Iraq, where Iranian Kurdish opposition movements are based. They actively denounce the repression of demonstrations in the Islamic Republic, caused by the death of Mashsa Amini after his arrest by the Police of Manners, September 16.
These shots, claimed by Iran, have damaged and destroyed buildings in the Zrgoiz sector, about fifteen kilometers from Souleimaniyé, where are premises of several Iranian Kurdish armed opposition parties, in particular those of Komala. It was not possible to immediately assess the extent of the damage, nor the number of injured or dead.
A correspondent of the France-Presse agency (AFP) in Zrgoiz has seen scrolls of white smoke raising one of the sites affected by the strikes, where ambulances have been dispatched. Residents were fleeing the premises, while light wounded were being treated on the spot by a party doctor. “The area where we find ourselves has been touched by ten drone strikes,” a Komala manager, Atta Nasser, has been shown to finger Iran.
The Sherawa region, south of Erbil, was also targeted by bombing. “Premises of the Kurdistan Liberty Party have been targeted by Iranian bombings,” said AFP an official of this Iranian opposition party, Hussein Yazdanpana.
In Tehran, Iranian state television said that “the land forces of the Guardians of the Revolutionary [the ideological army of the Islamic Republic] have targeted several districts of separatist terrorists in northern Iraq with precision missiles and destructive drones “. In recent days, Iranian artillery fire has on several occasions of the border areas of Kurdistan of Iraq, north of Erbil, without making notable damage.
“Those who disrupt order “
These strikes intervene in a tense context in Iran, where daily night demonstrations have been shaking the country since the death of Mahsa Amini, 22. The Kurdistan of Iraq welcomes several Kurdish Iranian opposition groups, which historically have led an armed insurrection against Tehran, even if in recent years their activities have been down. However, they remain very critical on social networks.
Furthermore, the command of the police in Iran, quoted by the Fars news agency, warned, on Wednesday, that its units would oppose “with all their strength” to the demonstrators “and will act everywhere in the country firmly against those who disrupt public order and security “. According to the Iran Human Rights organization, located in Oslo, at least sixty-six people had been killed in the demonstrations on September 26.