Iran's retaliation is wake-up call for Iraqis about Israeli danger

Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba weighed in on Sunday after missiles fired by Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in retaliation razed Mossad centres in Kurdistan’s Erbil.

Akram al-Kaabi, the secretary general of the movement, said the fact that the Kurdistan region “provides Mossad agents with refuge” makes it allowable for any party to target the “Zionist spies.”

The Erbil operation targeted the “lair of the Zionists, who have taken refuge with a famous family to carry out their mercenary operations,” he said, referring to the Barzani family, which has dominated Iraqi Kurdistan's politics for some time. 

The family provides refuge to Iraq’s “enemies with the aim of weakening and disintegrating the country” and separating Kurdistan from Iraq, al-Kaabi said.

“We congratulate those who stand with us against Daesh and Mossad,” he said in an apparent reference to Iran which was key to helping Iraq drive out the Takfiri terrorists from its cities.

Kaabi said he had received verified reports that several Mossad agents had been killed in Iran's retaliatory attack.

Kaabi also welcomed calls for the formation of a committee to investigate the existence of Mossad centres in the Iraqi Kurdistan region.

"This committee should lead to the consolidation of Iraqi sovereignty over the rule in Erbil and prevent further defiance," Kaabi said.

Another Iraqi resistance movement said the decisive counterattack by Iran on Mossad training centres in Erbil portends "a different stage of conflict on the Iraqi soil.”

The group also upbraided certain groups and individuals who have talked disparagingly about Iran's retaliation. 

"Where were these voices, when the American and Zionist occupiers were bombing Iraqi forces and military warehouses?” it said.

Senior Iraqi cleric Jawad al-Khasi said Mossad uses the Kurdistan region to “export terrorism” to Iraq and its neighbors.

'Iran strike proved resistance enjoys upper hand’