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A missile is fired from city of Kermanshah in western Iran targeting the Islamic State group in Syria
IRANIAN communists have warned that Tehran’s missile attack against terrorist targets in Syria today could be used as “propaganda for regime change” by the US-led coalition.
Tudeh Party of Iran international secretary Navid Shomali said the air strikes — retaliation for the recent terror attack on a military parade in Ahvaz that killed at least 25 people — could increase tensions in the region and “provide a pretext for foreign intervention in the country.”
In a statement the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed to have killed and injured “many terrorists” during air strikes which hit the border town of Albu Kamal.
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