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Iraq
Iran and Turkey conduct military operations in Haji Omaran for second day straight: officials
2020-06-18
[Rudaw] A second day of Iranian shelling, as well as Ottoman Turkish drone flight, was reported over the area of Alana in Erbil province's Haji Omaran district bordering Iran, local officials and witnesses said on Wednesday, after media outlets close to the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
and 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...
agreed to jointly fight what they called Kurdistan Region-based cross-border "terrorism".

"The artillery shelling started at 9:05 am, lasting for 15 minutes and hitting the area ten times," Alana village resident Maasuma Hamad Amin told Rudaw. "The bombing has sparked fear among locals."

Footage submitted by Amin purportedly shows the very moment Iranian artillery shelling struck the mountainous border area.

According to Haji Omaran mayor Farzang Ahmed, Iranian shelling is specifically targeting Alana's Baraskan heights.

Due to the shelling, "nomadic families have fled the region," Ahmed said, adding that the damage it has caused is not yet known.

Local authorities have established a committee of "civil defense, medical teams and police, in order to be on alert in case of injuries and any possible fire," Ahmed said.

According to another local official, Iranian shelling is occurring at the same time as Ottoman Turkish operation in the area. Turkey launched a major air operation against suspected Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) positions in the Kurdistan Region on Monday, followed by a ground operation in the Haftanin area of the Kurdistan Region in the early hours of Wednesday.

"Ottoman Turkish unmanned drones are spotted hovering overhead at the same time," Alana village chieftain Abdulla Hussein said.

The area has previously been subject to Iranian artillery shelling that targets Iranian Kurdish opposition groups nestled in the Kurdistan Region-Iran border area. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has called on Iranian Kurdish gangs not to launch attacks against neighboring countries from Kurdistan Region territory.

Though official Iranian state outlets have not yet said anything about the shelling, it has been reported by platforms affiliated by the IRGC, who say it is targeting Kurdish guerilla groups.

"The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has shelled positions of groups of PJAK and PKK in northern Iraq. In these attacks the areas of Alana Valley, Keli Ghazal and Barda Soran near the border area of Haji Omaran were targeted by the artillery of the IRGC," reported the IRGC-affiliated ISWNEWS.

"It is reported that hours before the [IRGC strikes] the Ottoman Turkish jets bombed the same area, however official sources have not confirmed the joint operation of the two countries," the ISWNEWS report added.

Bita Wan, a news website close to the IRGC said the same-day attacks came after Turkey and Iran mutally agreed to fight "terrorism".

Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
...Persian foreign minister, Mouthpiece of Mullahs, good friend of John Kerry and similar exemplars of Merkin values...
and his Ottoman Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu met in Ankara on Monday, reiterating their commitment to fight "terrorism" amongst a host of other issues.
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