Iran launches a ballistic missile, striking near the US Consulate in Erbil, Iraq

Amidst further escalation in the Middle East geopolitical tensions, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fired missiles at targets in northern Iraq, according to a statement released by Iranian state media.

“Ballistic missiles were used to destroy espionage centers and gatherings of anti-Iranian terrorist groups in the region late tonight,” the media reported.

The ballistic missile was struck near the US Consulate in Erbil, Iraq, Iran’s IRGC said.

It said the targets were the positions of “spies and dissident groups”, however, Sky News reported the US Consulate in Erbil had been attacked by “long-range missiles with great destructive capacity.”

Iranians retaliated against the terrorist attacks this month that killed almost 100 people near the burial site of General Qassem Soleimani.