BAGHDAD, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Iraqi Foreign Ministry submitted Wednesday an official complaint against Iran to the United Nations (UN) and the UN Security Council following the missile attack on Erbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan.
The ministry said in a statement that it had filed a complaint in two identical letters to both the secretary general of the United Nations and the president of the UN Security Council through Iraq's permanent mission to the UN in New York.
The ministry's letters stressed that the "aggression is considered a blatant violation of Iraq's sovereignty, territorial integrity, and the security of the Iraqi people," according to the statement.
On Tuesday, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani denounced the Iranian missile attack on Erbil as an "aggressive act" that would undermine the strong bilateral relations.
Earlier on Tuesday, Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said it had launched barrages of ballistic missiles against the bases of "terrorists" and Israel's intelligence service Mossad in Syria as well as Iraq's Kurdistan region respectively in response to recent anti-Iran "terror" attacks.
Late on Monday night, the Kurdistan Region Security Council said in a statement that four people were killed and six others injured in the Iranian missile attack on "several populated civilian areas" in Erbil. ■
