The attack was launched from Iranian territory, it said in a statement<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing justifies the reckless attack on PM Barzani’s office. Kurdish friends should be vigilant against false-flag ploys to sow discord between neighbors,\u201d Araghchi wrote. \u201cWe protected our Kurdish friends against Saddam and DAESH, and we’re thankful for security they’ve provided on our border.\u201d<\/p>\n
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ismaeil Baqaei doubled down on Araghchi<\/a>\u2019s statements in comments to Iranian state media on Monday, describing the attack as \u201chighly suspicious.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis development is highly suspicious and requires all sides to exercise vigilance,\u201d he told IRNA, adding that he had information indicating that Iraqi intelligence was holding groups responsible for planning and carrying out the \u201csinister plots.\u201d<\/p>\n Security analyst accuses Iran’s response of being incomplete<\/p>\n Security analyst Roger Macmillan said that the response by the Iranian officials was lacking.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Kurdistan Counter-Terrorism Service didn’t just say \u2018Iran did this.\u2019 They named the munition type, two Hadid-110 drones, and stated a launch origin inside Iranian territory,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n \u201cThat’s a forensic claim, not a political one. A false-flag narrative needs to explain how a third party sourced and launched an Iranian-designated drone type from inside Iran’s own territory. Araghchi’s statement doesn’t engage with that detail at all; it simply asserts the incident is \u2018suspicious\u2019 and pivots to blaming unnamed others.\u201d<\/p>\n The attack came after a report from Axios published on Sunday claimed that the Trump administration used Iraqi Kurdistan President Nechirvan Barzani as a backchannel<\/a> to speak with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Commander Ahmad Vahidi. The report was later confirmed by a spokesperson to Iran International.<\/p>\n Macmillan said that the fact that the strike came within days of the confirmation indicated that the motive behind the attack was to punish KRG and warn its leadership against making further admissions going forward.<\/p>\n IRGC attacks Kurdish territories, ‘Post’ confirms<\/p>\n Erbil has seen frequent attacks from Iran since the outbreak of the war. A Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) report seen by The Jerusalem Post claimed that between February 28 and August 1, the IRGC and affiliated groups were responsible for 423 attacks on five Kurdish organizations in the territory, resulting in 20 casualties. The Post has also previously spoken with Ardalan Mama, whose home was destroyed by an Iranian missile.<\/p>\n Since the outbreak of the war, Araghchi has frequently commented on the risk of alleged false-flag attacks. In March, he warned his Turkish counterpart of repeated false-flag operations aimed at undermining regional ties a day after NATO intercepted a ballistic missile fired from Iran over Turkey<\/a>, and only weeks ago he described a drone strike on Egypt’s Damietta Port as an Israeli false-flag operation.<\/p>\n \u201cEgypt is considered a friend and important partner in the region, and its security constitutes an utmost priority for us. We must all remain vigilant toward Israeli schemes and “false flag” operations that aim to undermine regional peace,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe threat is clear, shared, and fears Muslim solidarity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi dismissed the drone attack on the office of the Kurdistan Democratic Party leader,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[211,711,682,34,94,424,46,362,11970,309],"class_list":["post-254293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-abbas-araghchi","tag-drone","tag-drone-attack","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-irgc","tag-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps","tag-kurdistan","tag-masrour-barzani","tag-trump-administration"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117116373811853421","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks during a joint press conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (not pictured) in Tehran, Iran, November 30, 2025. (credit: MAJID ASGARIPOUR\/WANA)<\/p>\n