Iran claims responsibility for strikes near US Consulate in northern Iraq
January 16, 2024
11,702
156
71
1.94%
Search the Record
IndexedEvery word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
New York Post Episodes Around January 16, 2024
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
2:54Now PlayingIran claims responsibility for strikes near US Consulate in northern Iraq
YouTube Description
as posted by the channelIran has claimed responsibility for missile strikes that exploded near the US consulate in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region late Monday.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they targeted “spy headquarters and the gathering of anti-Iranian terrorist groups” near Erbil, the capital and most populated city in Kurdistan.
Four civilians were killed and six were wounded in the attack that saw 10 missiles rain down in the area near the US Consulate, the security council of the Kurdish regional government said.
The dead include prominent local businessman Pershraw Dizayi and his family members, a former deputy speaker of Iraqi Kurdistan’s parliament, Hemin Hawrami, said on X.
A rocket struck the home of the multimillionaire, who has a large portfolio of real estate and security services companies and was close to the Kurdish ruler.
Read more at
#iran #iraq #missile
The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more.
Subscribe to New York Post Sports
Catch the latest news here
Follow The New York Post on:
Guests & Subjects Covered
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.