A protest following the death of Mahsa Amini in front of the U.N. office in Erbil, Iraq.
TEHRAN—Iran shelled militant opposition groups in the semiautonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq on Saturday, according to state media, an attack that comes during nationwide protests over the death of a young Kurdish woman in police custody that have rocked the country.
The Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s security force, launched the artillery attacks against “anti-Iran terrorist groups” in the Iraqi Kurdistan region on Saturday, the Guards said in a statement carried by the state news agency, IRNA.