Senior Iraq official says Iran claim it hit Mossad base ‘false’

By AFP 16 January 2024, 2:34 pm

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This handout photograph released and taken on January 16, 2024 by Kurdistan 24 broadcast news station shows a damaged building at a site hit by a missile attack launched by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in Erbil, the capital of Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdish region. (Kurdistan24/AFP)

Iraqi National Security Adviser Qassem al-Araji dismisses as “false” Iran’s claim that it hit an Israeli intelligence base in an overnight missile strike in the Kurdish regional capital Erbil.

“Concerning the alleged presence of a headquarters of Israel’s Mossad, we visited the house, we inspected every corner of it and everything indicated that it was the family home of an Iraqi businessman,” Araji told Kurdish television station K24 after touring the building that was hit.

“These allegations are false and incorrect,” added Araji, who has been tasked by the Baghdad government with investigating the Iranian strikes.