Tehran, IRNA - Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour said that the positions of the terrorist outfits in northern Iraqi Kurdistan region were hit and destroyed by 73 ballistic missiles.

Referring to IRGC's operations on Wednesday, Brigadier General Pakpour said that in this anti- terrorist operations, which were launched in depth of northern Iraqi region of Kurdistan, a number of 73 surface-to-surface ballistic missiles and dozens of destruction drones have precisely struck the terrorist positions and targets which led to their complete destruction.

The IRGC Ground Force commander urged the authorities in the northern Iraqi region of Kurdistan to remove the anti-Iran terrorist outfits settled there and stressed that the operations would continue until the full disarmament of the outfits in the very region.

"In the new phase of the operations, these targets, which were scattered at 42 points and, in some cases, were 400 kilometers away from each other and definitely belonged to anti-Iranian terrorist groups, were hit," he added.

In a similar operation on Monday, the IRGC’s Ground Force launched artillery and drone attacks against terrorist bases and pounded the gatherings, training camps, and operations rooms of terrorist groups in the Iraqi Kurdistan region with smart and precision-strike weapons. 

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