Demonstration in Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, on September 24, 2022, as a sign of solidarity with Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman who died in Iran after being arrested by the morality police for wearing her veil "inappropriately." (Credit: Safin Hamed/ AFP)
BEIRUT — Iranian state media said on Sunday that the ground forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked bases belonging to “separatist groups” in northern Iraq. It is currently unclear which specific sites were targeted, and there is no information on the identity of the groups involved.
This is not the first time Iran’s ideological military forces have targeted groups it labels as “separatist” in Iraq. On March 7, 2026, during what Iranian officials described as a U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, the Revolutionary Guards said they had struck Iranian “separatist groups” in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
“If separatist groups in the [Kurdistan] region take any action against Iran’s territorial integrity, we will crush them,” the statement, carried by the Tasnim news agency, said at the time.
The earlier operation followed reports suggesting that Kurdish fighters might cross into Iran, possibly to take part in the fighting. It is not clear whether similar motivations are behind the latest strikes.
