“The Iranian Shelling Started At 11:00 AM”
Sulaimaniya, Aug 22, (VOI)- The Iranian shelling on the southern borders of Qaleat Daza district in Sulaimaniya continued, the mayor of the district said on Wednesday.
“The Iranian shelling started at 11:00 am on Tuesday on the border regions in Qalaat Daza, where Qandoula village came under shelling for several hours,” Hussein Muhammad told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
“The shelling caused severe damage to the region and set farms on fire but without casualties,” he added.
Eyewitnesses from the district said on Monday that Iranian choppers spread leaflets, calling residents to leave their regions.
The official spokesman for the government of Kurdistan announced that his government would hold investigation on these leaflets.
The spokesman for the Peshmerga fighters held the federal government in Baghdad responsible for taking any decision to respond on the Iranian shelling.
The recent Iranian wave of attacks came after some Iranian opposition group claimed shooting down an Iranian copter in the area.
On Saturday, the official Iranian news agency (IRNA) said five elements from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards were killed and six others wounded when a military helicopter crashed near Qandil mount near the borders with Iraq.
“The crash was due to bad weather circumstances in the area,” IRNA quoted a military source as saying.
However, the local Kurds claimed in advance of that to have shot the helicopter down.
The Iranian news agency said “the copter was transporting soldiers in a surveillance mission in the area, when the accident occurred.”
Meanwhile, a source from Iraq’s Kurdistan Government said clashes broke out between the PKK fighters and the Iranian forces on the borderline between Iraq and Iran without giving further details about the clashes.
The spokesman for the Peshmerga Ministry in Iraq’s Kurdistan government told VOI be telephone “clashes were going on between elements from the PKK and the Iranian forces but we do not have information as to the casualties on both sides.”
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Omg what’s wrong with Iran? The Iranians should seriously overthrow their government already.
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:54 am“under shelling for several hours” Nothing available to return fire?
August 22nd, 2007 at 2:36 amThey are begging for it now.
The Iranian people need to see where their leader is going before this gets to full tilt.
(The younger generation of Iran does not want ahmadickwad version of reality. Lets hope there will be a removal from within.)
August 22nd, 2007 at 6:10 amWell, what are we waiting for. Lets get up there and show them Iranifucks what accurate counterbattery fires look like.
August 22nd, 2007 at 6:12 amWell,if the Iranians move into Iraq with elements of their military the Blue State bleeding heart liberals cannot stop us from defending Iraq. That’s one way to stop their nuke program.
August 22nd, 2007 at 7:21 amBesides we have Iran surrounded! Do it like we did Afghanistan, let SF go in and start a revolution.
If and when we go after Iran, in defense of Iraq, we need to change tactics a little from the Iraqi invasion. Do not leave any survivors form the Qods forces or any other Iranian military, take them all out, leaves less terrorist and extremists to deal with later.
Fire for effect and Semper fi
August 22nd, 2007 at 8:40 am