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Masrour Barzani, the KRG prime minister, wrote on X/Twitter that “based on information and investigations conducted by the Counter-Terrorism Directorate in the Kurdistan Region, it has been confirmed that my personal office and the residence of the President of the Parastin Agency were subjected today to Iranian attacks using drones.”
He added “as I strongly condemn these reckless and unacceptable aggressions in the strongest terms, I affirm that they constitute a dangerous escalation and a direct threat to the security and stability of the region, and such attacks will not deter us from continuing to carry out our duties and protecting our citizens.”The attack came a day after a report at Axios noted that KRG President Nechirvan Barzani had been tapped by the US as a possible backchannel in diplomacy with Iran. Nechirvan and Masrour are related, and both come from the Barzani family that runs the KDP party, the largest Kurdish party in Iraq.
The role of Nechirvan was later confirmed in a second report at Iran International. It is not clear if Iran carried out the drone attack in the context of sending a message to the Kurdistan Region or to the US. The US has apparently been giving the cold shoulder to new talks with Iran.
Iran may have used attack to showcase drone
The Kurdistan Region has been attacked more than 1,000 times by Iran and its proxies since the US and Israeli strikes on Iran in February. Nechirvan Barzani’s resident was targeted in March. The escalation in attacks, now targeting Masrour Barzani, illustrates how Iran is willing to continue to cross red lines.Iran is seeking to inflame the region and spread the war to new fronts. Iraq is a front. Iranian-backed militias attacked Saudi Arabia from Iraq over the last month. Iraq is being pressured by the US to rein in and disarm the militias. However, other disarmament initiatives in Gaza and Lebanon, where Iranian-backed terrorist groups operate, have not been successful so far.
What did the KRG say about the drone attack. “The Kurdistan Counter-Terrorism Unit has confirmed that at 00:28 on Monday (17 August 2026), Iran launched two explosives-laden Hadid-110 drones across the border, targeting the prime minister’s private office (at KRG headquarters) and the home of the head of the KRG Security and Intelligence Agency (in Pirmam District, Erbil Governorate),” the KRG said.
