Iran’s IRGC claims missile strike targeted Mossad ‘espionage headquarters’ in Iraqi Kurdistan

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says a missile strike it launched targeted “the espionage headquarters of Israel’s Mossad in Iraq’s Kurdistan,” according to a statement carried by the IRGC-linked Fars news agency.

The statement claims the ballistic missiles destroyed the facility.

According to the Revolutionary Guards, the attack was a “response to the recent evil acts of the Zionist regime in martyring IRGC and resistance commanders,” apparently referring to a strike in Syria that killed high-ranking IRGC Brig. Gen. Razi Mousavi and a pair of separate attacks in Lebanon that killed Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri and senior Hezbollah military commander Wissam al-Tawil. Both Arouri and Tawil had close links with Iran.

“We assure our nation that the Guards’ offensive operations will continue until avenging the last drops of martyrs’ blood,” the IRGC statement says.