Brussels: Europe and the Arabs
The European Union condemns in the strongest terms the renewed Iranian bombing, which was claimed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which resulted in deaths and injuries. According to what was stated in a statement issued by the spokesman for the European Foreign Policy Coordinator and distributed in Brussels on Tuesday, and it also includes:
As the European Union said last September, these attacks violate Iraq's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and they must stop.
The statement concluded by saying: The European Union stands in full solidarity with the Iraqi people, the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government.
The semi-official Fars News Agency said that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards targeted what it described as "terrorist groups" in the Iraqi Kurdistan region with missile and drone strikes on Monday.
The Revolutionary Guards have launched attacks on Iranian Kurdish armed opposition bases in the northern Iraqi region since the killing of the young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, on September 16.
Iran accuses Kurdish militants in northern Iraq of fomenting unrest sweeping the Islamic Republic.
Tariq al-Haidari, mayor of the city of Koya in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq, said that at least one person was killed and 10 others wounded, on Monday, after missiles hit the headquarters of the Iranian Kurdish party in Koya, near the regional capital of Erbil.