Official: Iran airstrikes target Kurdish groups in Iraq

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : A previous round of Iranian strikes late Sunday night killed a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Iran, or KDPI, one of the Iranian Kurdish dissident groups based in Iraq.
39% : Iran has not provided evidence to back up the claims.
37% : Some Iranian Kurdish groups have been engaged in a low-intensity conflict with Tehran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and have sought refuge in neighboring Iraq where they established bases.
33% : During the visit, he threatened Iraq with a ground military operation in the country's north if the Iraqi army does not fortify its border with Iran against Kurdish opposition groups, officials said.
33% : Such an offensive, if carried out, would be unprecedented in Iraq, and raise the specter of regional fallout from Iran's domestic unrest, which Tehran has portrayed as a foreign plot without offering evidence.
31% : Iran has said the strikes are necessary to protect its borders, while Iraqi Kurdish officials condemn the missile and drone attacks as unprovoked aggression on Iraq.
16% : Iran alleges that these groups are inciting anti-government protests in Iran and smuggling weapons into the country, which the Iranian Kurdish groups deny.

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