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Iraq
Turkish airstrikes, Iranian artillery simultaneously pound Kurdistan Region border area
2020-06-17
[Rudaw] Iranian artillery shells and Ottoman Turkish Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s simultaneously pounded the Haji Omaran area on the Kurdistan Region's border with Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
on Tuesday, local officials have told Rudaw.

No casualties as a result of the bombardment have yet been reported, according to the chieftain of the affected village of Alana.

"In the Ottoman Turkish airstrikes, the heights of Baraskan in the village of Alana were targeted, causing no human losses," chieftain Abdulla Hussein told Rudaw.

While the area has previously been subject to Iranian artillery shelling that targets Iranian Kurdish opposition groups nestled in the border area, Ottoman Turkish bombardment around Alana is unheard of, according to the district mayor of Haji Omaran.

"We suspect that the two sides are in coordination, because this is the first time that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
has bombed this region," mayor Farzang Ahmed told Rudaw.

"This region is frequently and every year under Iran's shelling, on the grounds that they are targeting Kurdish opposition parties," Ahmed said.

Today's attacks come a day after Turkey announced the launch of Operation Claw-Eagle, targeting suspected Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) bases in Shingal in Nineveh province, and Makhmour, Qarachogh, Mount Qandil, Khuakurk, and Zap across the Kurdistan Region.

In Monday's air campaign, Turkey's defense ministry said they hit a total of 81 targets, including "shelters and caves".
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  The fact that you say Baghdad can't do anything about what is happening in Kurdistan reinforces the argument that Iraq ia a failed state.
Posted by: b   2020-06-17 13:59  

#2  They do complain, from time to time. But it’s semi-independent Kurdish territory, so they don’t really care if the upstarts get punished a bit, since Baghdad can’t do anything about it anyway.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-06-17 12:06  

#1  The fact that Iraq makes no complaint after attacks on its territory demonstrates, if demonstrations are needed, that it is a failed state, a fallen humpty-dumpty
Posted by: b   2020-06-17 08:35  

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