SULAIMANIYAH, Iraqi Kurdistan — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) bombed the Koysinjaq area in both Erbil and Sulaimaniyah provinces on the morning of Nov. 14. At least five rockets hit both sides of the border between the two provinces, injuring many residents, according to the local health authorities. Two deaths have been reported so far.

IRGC attacks in the Kurdistan Region have become frequent in the past few months, as the protests in Iran continue and the Iranian authorities accused some of the Kurdish opposition located in northern Iraq of being involved in the protests in Iran.

Maj. Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, said Oct. 16, “We will never accept that 3,000 armed men on the other side of the Iranian border have factories to produce bombs. We will carry on with the operations targeting them, and there will be large-scale operations,” in reference to the Iranian opposition in Iraqi Kurdistan.

On Oct. 12, Saudi Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper quoted sources in Tehran as saying, “The IRGC announced that its ground units are ready to carry out limited operations targeting the sites of the opposition Komala party and the Kurdistan Democratic Party [KDP].”