BFF-37 Iran Guards confirm missile strikes on Kurd rebels in Iraq

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Iran Guards confirm missile strikes on Kurd rebels in Iraq

TEHRAN, Sept 9, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards
confirmed Sunday they had launched deadly missile strikes against Kurdish
rebels in northern Iraq the previous day.

“The terrorists’ headquarters… was successfully struck by seven surface-
to-surface rockets on Saturday by the missile department of the Guards’
aerospace force,” it said on its Sepah News website.

A medical official in Iraqi Kurdistan said at least 11 members of an
Iranian Kurdish rebel group were killed.

BSS/AFP/FI/ 1558 hrs