Hattip US Under Attack.
[Jpost] No casualties were reported in the attack."Our partners in nuclear peace"
Some 12 missiles were fired from Iranian territory and fell near the US consulate in Erbil in northwestern Iraq on Saturday night.
The Kurdistan Counter-Terrorism Service announced that 12 ballistic missiles were fired from "outside the borders of Iraq and the Kurdistan region, specifically from the east," according to the Iraqi News Agency (INA).
Independent open-source intelligence (OSINT) accounts shared videos reportedly shared by Iranian civilians showing missiles being fired from Iran
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...at the time of the attack, with at least one of the videos being geolocated to a site in Khasabad in the East Azerbaijan province of Iran.
| Tweeted videos can be seen at the link. |
While damages were reported in the attack, no casualties were reported.
The health minister of Kurdistan stated that there were no injuries or deaths reported in the attack on Saturday night. A US official told Rooters on Saturday night that there were no US military casualties in the attack.
The missile attack came as negotiations to return to the JCPOA nuclear deal with Iran stalled in Vienna.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell tweeted on Friday that the talks in Vienna needed a "pause," due to "external factors." Borrell added that a final text is "essentially ready and on the table."
Iranian foreign ministry front man Saeed Khatibzadeh stated on Saturday that there were at least one or two key issues that the US and Iran had not yet reached an agreement on. He added that the two states disagree on how sanctions should be lifted, with Iran wanting more sectors released from sanctions and the US wanting less.
Iranian officials stated that it is unclear when negotiations will resume.
Another video from missile launches from Khasabad military base in eastern Azerbaijan province of #Iran pic.twitter.com/VkVB1dWegc
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| Funker530 adds more, with video at the link: |
Very few details have been released at this time, but the video apparently shows these missiles flying out from the Iranian Khasabad missile base in Eastern Azerbaijan Province.
| Update from the Times of Israel at 11:40 a.m. ET: |
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards take responsibility for the missile attack on the US consulate complex in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil early this morning.
| So now we know. |
| They hit the local television station. So not terribly precise. |
Iranian state media agency IRNA, citing local reports, earlier claimed without evidence that “secret Israeli bases” were targeted in the attack.
The attack caused some material damage but no casualties.
