Saudi Arabia condemns Iranian attack on Kurdish region in Iraq

Saudi Arabia on Thursday has strongly condemned the Iranian attacks on the Kurdish region of northern Iraq.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they had fired missiles and drones at militant targets in several Kurdish sites, killing over a dozen people “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses its strong condemnation and denunciation of the Iranian attacks that targeted the Kurdish region in Iraq, which caused the death and injury of several innocent people,” the Kingdom’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

“The ministry affirms its total rejection of all attacks that threaten the security and stability of Iraq, stressing the importance of the international community standing up to all Iranian abuses that violate international law,” the statement read The Kingdom also expressed its deepest sympathy and condolences to the government and people of Iraq Thirteen people were killed and 58 wounded in the attacks near Irbil and Sulaimaniya in Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq’s state news agency said, citing its counter-terrorism service in Kurdistan Iran’s elite military and security force said they would continue targeting what it called terrorists in the region.