Who is Peshraw Dizayee, Kurdish-Iraqi businessman killed in Iran's attack?
Iran claimed it targeted “spy bases” belonging to Israel’s spy agency in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, but several civilians were also killed in the strike.
Kurdish businessman Peshraw Dizayee was killed in an Iranian strike in Iraqi Kurdistan Monday, raising outrage and tensions between the two countries as the spillover from the Israel-Hamas war continues.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it hit “spy centers” belonging to Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency in Erbil. The attack followed a suspected Israeli strike in Syria in December that killed a senior IRGC commander.
The Iranian strike killed at least four civilians, including 61-year-old Dizayee. The businessman’s 11-month-old daughter was also among the dead, the Kurdish Iraqi news outlet Rudaw reported.
Deeply saddened by the loss of my good friend, Peshraw Dizayee, in the Erbil attack by IRGC's ballistic missiles. My heart goes out to his family and friends during this difficult time. May his memory be a blessing and may his soul rest in eternal peace. pic.twitter.com/FljXYocvtM
— Honar Issa (@honarissa) January 15, 2024
Iraqi national security adviser Qassim al-Araji visited the site of the bombing on Tuesday and called the IRGC accusations of a Mossad presence “baseless.”
