US media claimed that rebel militants had launched a ground offensive from Iraq amid ongoing US-Israeli strikes on Tehran
Local authorities in western Iran have firmly denied reports that armed Kurdish groups had crossed into the country from Iraq’s Kurdistan region, insisting the border is under complete control. Meanwhile, Tehran has reportedly carried out “preemptive strikes” on opposition bases in northern Iraq.
The denials follow days of US media reports suggesting Washington was arming Kurdish forces as potential ground troops. An American official told Fox News on Wednesday that “thousands of Iraqi Kurdish fighters” had allegedly launched an assault inside Iran.
Mohammad Shafi’i, governor of Qasr-e Shirin county on the Iran-Iraq border, dismissed the incursion reports, telling local media Thursday that “no reports of infiltration or illegal movement of armed groups or criminals have been recorded.”
He described rumors about “anti-revolutionary elements” entering the Islamic Republic as “completely false,” serving “no purpose other than to create concern among the people.”
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