Iran blamed a foreign security service and Kurdish groups in Iraq for a drone attack on an ammunition depot near the central city of Isfahan over the weekend, state-run Nour News reported.
(Bloomberg) — Iran blamed a foreign security service and Kurdish groups in Iraq for a drone attack on an ammunition depot near the central city of Isfahan over the weekend, state-run Nour News reported.
The equipment and explosives were brought into the country with the help of “Kurdish anti-revolutionary groups” in Iraqi Kurdistan under orders by the foreign security service, according to the report. It didn’t identity the country which the security service belonged to.
Three unmanned “suicide drones” targeted the Defense Ministry complex on Saturday, with one hitting the ceiling, Iran said at the time.
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The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that Israel was responsible for the attack, citing unidentified US officials and people familiar with the operation.
Iran has previously accused Kurdish groups in Iraq of instigating anti-government protests over the death of a Kurdish-Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, in police custody in Tehran in September.
In response, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has launched several drone and missile attacks on what it calls “separatist terrorists” in northern Iraq.
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