00:18Two drones, one mountain, and a message that Iran has been sending for years but is now
00:25sending more often. This weekend, explosives rained down on a village in Iraqi Kurdistan,
00:31and Iraq's own Prime Minister just called an emergency meeting because of it.
00:36Saturday, August 1st, two explosive drones slammed into a mountainous area near Jasana
00:43Cave on the outskirts of a small village in the Dukan district of Sulaymaniyah province.
00:48The target wasn't random. This area sits near positions linked to Komala, an Iranian Kurdish
00:56opposition party that's operated from Iraqi soil for decades. A Komala security official
01:02told Rudolph the strike sparked a fire. He called it small. Other eyewitnesses described flames
01:08tearing through vineyards and orchards with wildlife caught in the blaze. No people were
01:14killed. No bases were destroyed. But that's almost beside the point. Because this isn't
01:19an isolated incident. It's a pattern. For years, Iran's Revolutionary Guard has launched missile
01:26and drone strikes into Erbil and Sulaymaniyah, hunting Iranian Kurdish opposition groups, Komala,
01:33the PDKI, PAC, that Tehran labels separatist terrorists. What's changed in 2026 is the tempo.
01:41These strikes aren't rare headline events anymore. They're becoming routine. A slow burn campaign
01:48happening almost under the radar, using Iraqi territory as the battlefield without Iraq's
01:54permission. And Baghdad is caught in the middle. Just hours after the drone strike, Prime Minister
02:01Muhammad Shia al-Zayidi called an emergency security meeting. His message? Iraq will not be a launch pad
02:08for attacks on its neighbors, full stop. He ordered the armed forces on alert and demanded a new joint
02:15committee to build actual deterrence. But here's his real problem. The groups doing this on both sides
02:22don't answer to him. Iran-linked militias have reportedly launched attacks on Saudi Arabia from
02:29Iraqi soil. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia just struck militia targets inside Iraq days ago. And now Iranian
02:37drones are hitting Kurdish targets in the north. Iraq isn't choosing these fights. It's just where
02:44they keep happening. No casualties this time. No claimed responsibility. Just another fire in the
02:51mountains and a warning that the shadow war along Iraq's northern border isn't slowing down. The question
02:57isn't if the next drone comes, it's when, and whether Baghdad can actually stop it.
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