Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say that a missile strike they launched on a Kurdish rebel base in neighboring Iraq last week should serve as a warning to “arrogant foreign powers.”
The elite Guards fired seven medium-range ballistic missiles at the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran in Koysinjaq in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, causing major casualties and damage with what they described as a precision strike.
“With a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles), our missiles endow the Iranian nation with a unique ability to fight against arrogant foreign powers,” Guards commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari tells the semi-official ISNA news agency.
“All those that have forces, bases and equipment within a 2,000 kilometer radius of Iran’s sacred borders should know that (our) missiles are highly accurate.”
Iranian officials have long referred to the United States as the “world arrogance” and the Guards’ arsenal of medium-range missiles puts US bases in the Gulf and beyond within reach.
— AFP
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