00:03Iran just fired a ballistic missile across an international border and hit a Kurdish
00:09opposition headquarters in Iraq. The compound is still on fire, and almost no one in the
00:15mainstream news is talking about it. Overnight, on May 23rd into the 24th, a ballistic missile
00:22launched from Iran crossed into Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region and struck the
00:27headquarters of the Kurdistan Freedom Party, also known as the Pak. Footage circulating
00:33online tells the story clearly. Intense flames, thick plumes of black smoke. The entire compound
00:41was engulfed. This wasn't a warning shot or a near miss. The missile hit directly.
01:00Casualty figures are still coming in. But given the scale of what's visible in that footage
01:05and the pattern of what Iran has done before, the picture isn't good. So who exactly did
01:11Iran just bomb? The Kurdistan Freedom Party is one of several Iranian Kurdish opposition
01:17groups that have long operated out of bases in northern Iraq. They advocate for Kurdish
01:22rights inside Iran, maintain armed units, and have been part of broader coalitions calling
01:28for political change within the Iranian regime. To Tehran, they're a threat, a separatist force,
01:35an enemy operating from across the border. To the Kurds who support them, they're a lifeline,
01:41a voice for millions of people Iran has spent decades trying to silence. The Iranian Islamic
01:47Revolutionary Guard score has a simple answer to that disagreement — missiles. Here's what makes
01:53last night's strike impossible to dismiss as an isolated incident. Since late February 2026 alone,
02:00Iran has conducted, by some tallies, over 800 strikes on Iranian Kurdish opposition positions
02:07in northern Iraq. Missiles, rockets, drones, targeting bases near Arabul, in the Koya district,
02:14Indigala, Dara Shakhran, at least 20 people were killed, nearly 130 were injured. 800 strikes in
02:23roughly three months. This is not a country firing warning shots. This is a sustained, systematic
02:30military campaign being waged on Iraqi soil against people Iran considers political enemies. Iraqi
02:38sovereignty violated, repeatedly. International condemnation issued and ignored. The fire at that
02:46PAC headquarters is still burning as you watch this, and Iran hasn't said a word.
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