No casualties were reported in the attack.
Highlights
- Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) claims responsibility for missile attack on northern Iraq’s Erbil.
- IRGC: “Strategic Center of Conspiracy and Evil of the Zionists” was targeted by powerful and point-to-point missiles of the IRGC.
- The attack came as negotiations stalled in Vienna over Iran’s nuclear deal with the U.S.
- State Department called it an “outrageous attack” No Americans were hurt and no damage to US government facilities in Erbil, the State Department said.
- Videos reportedly from the scene showed multiple large explosions in the area, with at least one video being geolocated to a site in Khasabad in the East Azerbaijan province of Iran.