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Author, Historian, Journalist. Former Freelance Contributor & Commentator of @BBC & @RFERL. Find my articles in @AFMonthly, @IsraelHayomHeb & @PtisiMagazine now

Mar 12, 2022, 27 tweets

#BREAKING: Unable to attack #Israel in retaliation of the death of two #IRGC Quds Force officers in #Damascus on Monday, Islamic Revolutionary Guard of Corps of #Iran just carried-out a combined drone/ballistic missile strike at #US Army base in #Erbil Intl airport in #Iraq!

Total six Fateh-110 ballistic missiles launched from #Iran's #Kermanshah province hit the #USArmy base in #Erbil International Airport in North of #Iraq. Surveillance drones of #IRGC Aerospace Force flew over the base before missiles hit it.

It is unconfirmed but, the pro-#IRGC sources claim that a #USAF's E-11A Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) aircraft was one of the targets. It is not clear if it is destroyed or not. The moment ballistic missiles hit military section of #Erbil airport.

#BREAKING: Most of the Fateh-110 ballistic missiles which hit the #US military base in #Erbil International Airport were launched from #Tabriz in Northwest of #Iran. This video shows the moment the missile lauch 👇

Aftermath of the ballistic missile strike of #IRGC Aerospace Force at a #US military base in #Erbil International Airport tonight👇

Central offices of the Kurdistan 24 TV near the #Erbil International airport were also damaged as a result of the ballistic missile strike of #IRGC at the #US military base in military section of the airport.

Shockwaves caused by the explosion of the ballistic missiles in the airport have turned the office of Kurdistan 24 TV into this 👇

Checked the massive shockwave caused by explosion of one of the ballistic missiles in #Erbil.

#BREAKING: Watch the moment Fateh-110 ballistic missiles were launched by #IRGC Aerospace Force from #Tabriz, Northwest of #Iran! 👇

As I said erlier, some of the ballistic missiles of #IRGC Aerospace Force were launched from #Kermanshah in west of #Iran. Here is an evidence showing one of them after launch in west of the Kermanshah's city 👇

#BREAKING: #IRGC has not just targeted a #US military base in #Erbil, according to Rudaw & other Kurdish media, at-least one of the ballistic missiles have hit next to the US Consulate building in the city! In fact, they also wanted to kill American diplomats as well!

CCTV footage shows the moment Fateh-110 ballistic missiles launched by #IRGC Aerospace Force hit the alleged #US military base in #Erbil International Airport tonight👇

#BREAKING: According to a source from #CENTCOM, Some of the Missiles hit an empty land next to the base. It seems, the attack was just a show of force to save face of the #Iranian regime officials!

We are waiting for first satellite images taken during the daylight tomorrow morning. But according to what I heard, none of the missiles have hit the so-called #CIA/#Mossad base in military section of the airport. This is where people say one or two have hit! 1,387 meters away!

Not a single #US Military & Diplomatic facility have been harmed by the #IRGC's ballistic missiles. All of the claims of #IRGC about targeting joint #US-#Israel base in #Erbil airport is baseless! They intentionally fired their missiles few hundreds of meters away!

What the authorities of Iranian regime achieved from the missile attack at #Erbil tonight is to make poor people of the Iraqi Kurdistan hate them more than before. Shockwaves of the missile explosions have caused damages to civilian properties in the Ankawa district of Erbil.

I was told that the 12 missiles fired by #IRGC from #Tabriz & #Kermanshah have hit two different sites. The first next to Erbil airport/ #US consultae and the second near the building of Barza Security Company. #IRGCASF might falsely claim that the company belongs to #Mossad!

Watch the extent of the damage to the building of Kurdistan24 TV as a result of the shockwaves caused by the explosion of the ballistic missiles launched by #IRGC at where I believe is training camp of Barza security company in northeast of #Erbil.

That is Jalal Khaledi, the correspondent of the state media of #Iran's Islamic Regime who is also an agent of #IRGC Quds Force stationed in #Baghdad. He is falsely claiming that #IRGCASF has targeted #Israeli military facilities in #Erbil!

The moment ballistic missiles launched from #Iran hit a training camp near the headquarters of Kurdistan24 TV in northeast of #Erbil:

#BREAKING: While #IRGC had announced earlier this morning that it was behind the missile attack at #Erbil, now the regime's officials including the spokesman of the National Security commission of #Iranian regime parliament says that #Iran is not behind this attack!

#IRGC has now officially taken responsibility for the ballistic missile strike at #Erbil. Here is their official statement.

See how a luxury villa located next to the training camp of Barza Security Company got severely damaged by shockwave of the explosions of Fateh-110 ballistic missiles. (Credit: Rudaw)

This mansion belonged to Baz Karim, the president of KAR group, the leading oil & gas industry figure in the Kurdistan Region. Some of the missiles which were going to hit training camp Barza Security Company hit this mansion! Now, #IRGC falsely claims it was a #Mossad base!

Cheap propaganda by #Iranian Regime! They have targeted and destroyed mansion of Baz Karim, the top #Kurdish oil dealer & they falsely claim it was headquarter of #Mossad in #Iraq's #Kurdistan!
(Credit: Kurdistan24)

This CCTV footage shows six Fateh-110 ballisitc missiles of #IRGC Aerospace Force launched from #Tabriz in Northwest of #Iran hitting mansion of #Kurdish businessman, Baz Karim in #Erbil, #Iraq's #Kurdistan. #Iranian regime falsely claims it was a #Mossad's HQ.

This video reportage from Rudaw shows a hole created by one of the Fateh-110 ballistic missiles of #IRGC in the backyard of the mansion of Baz Karim, the #Kurdish businessman who #Iranian regime falsely claim that his house was HQ of #Mossad.

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