In the multi-party war with many intermediaries that the Middle East has become, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has pressed another button this morning that triggers tension in the region. Iran has attacked targets linked to the Israeli Mossad, "spies of the Zionist regime", with missiles, according to what it has reported, in Erbil, Iraq, very close to the US consulate.
At least eight ballistic projectiles would have hit a building in a residential neighborhood on the outskirts of Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, causing the death of at least two civilians, as confirmed by Iraqi authorities.
Iran has expressed that the attacks are a “response to the recent crimes committed against the Islamic Republic” since the center served “to develop espionage operations and planning terrorist actions in the region, especially in our country” by “the Zionist entity.”
Washington has called Iran's offensive "reckless" and "imprecise" and points out that despite taking place near its consulate, there are no injuries among its personnel in Iraq and no damage to its facilities.
In Syria, in parallel, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has attacked bases of the Islamic State, which recently claimed responsibility for the suicide attack in Kerman that caused more than 90 deaths during events in memory of General Qasem Soleimani, assassinated four years ago by a US drone. Joined.
Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, called last week for action against the "hidden" perpetrators of the attack, which many interpreted as new threats against the United States and Israel. This morning they were fulfilled. And with the fires that persist in the Red Sea with the Houthis in Yemen, with Hizbullah in southern Lebanon and other Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria, they further strain the Middle East.
The hornet's nest grows.
