BAGHDAD, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Iraqi Foreign Ministry rejected Sunday the bombardment of positions of two Iranian Kurdish opposition parties in Iraq's semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan that killed 14 and wounded 39 others.
"Iraq is keen on (maintaining) the security of neighboring countries and refuses any use of its territory to threaten the security of those countries, hence the ministry categorically rejects the violation of Iraqi sovereignty by bombing any target inside Iraq without prior coordination with the Iraqi authorities," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ahmed Mahjoub said in a brief statement.
The statement came a day after Iranian drone and rockets shelled camps of anti-Iran Kurdistan Democratic Party-Iran (KDP-I) and Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) near the town of Kwisanjaq, some 30 km west of the borderline with neighboring Iran.
The Iranian attack killed a total of 14 people and wounded 39 others, ten of them were in critical conditions, according to a medical source from the town's hospital.
On Saturday, Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) condemned in a statement the bombardment which targeted headquarters of the Iranian Kurdish opposition parties and reiterated the region's policy to reject the use of Iraq's Kurdistan territory to launch attacks on neighboring countries.
"Therefore, we demand that such (Iranian) action not to be repeated and to respect the laws of the Kurdistan region," the Kurdish statement said.
Iranian and Turkish forces frequently attack the military bases of their Kurdish opposition parties in the mountainous area in Kurdistan in north and northeastern Iraq as they accuse the Kurdish opposition of carrying out attacks back in their homes from the Iraqi Kurdish region.
