The Iraqi Foreign Ministry, on Wednesday submitted an official complaint against Iran to the United Nations, UN, and the UN Security Council following the missile attack on Erbil.
Erbil is the capital of the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan.
The ministry in a statement disclosed that it had filed a complaint in two identical letters to both the secretary general of the United Nations and the president of the UN Security Council.
It noted that the letters were written through Iraq’s permanent mission to the UN in New York.
The ministry’s letters stressed that the “aggression is considered a blatant violation of Iraq’s Sovereignty, territorial integrity and the security of the Iraqi people”.
Iraqi Prime Minister, Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani on Tuesday denounced the Iranian missile attack on Erbil as an “aggressive act” that would undermine the strong bilateral relations.
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Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said it had launched barrages of ballistic missiles against the bases of “terrorists” and Israel’s intelligence service Mossad in Syria as well as Iraq’s Kurdistan region, adding that it was in response to recent anti-Iran “terror” attacks.
Late on Monday, the Kurdistan Region Security Council disclosed that four people were killed and six others injured in the Iranian missile attack on “several populated civilian areas” in Erbil.
