Baghdad: In the last 24 hours, heavy rocket attacks occurred on two sensitive places in Iraq. As Iraq’s presidential election process was underway, nine rockets fell in the highly protected Green Zone area. Before that, there were eight rocket attacks on the natural gas plant in the Kurdistan province of Iraq. Media in Iraq are claiming that there is a connection between these two attacks.
Iraq has not had a popularly elected president even after the elections held almost a year ago. Despite four attempts this year, the process of electing the president has not been completed. Iran-affiliated groups in Iraq are opposed to giving power to the party of Muqtada al-Sadr, who won last year’s general election. In such a situation, rocket attacks were carried out in the Green Zone area in Baghdad before the presidential election process started on Thursday. Five people were injured in this. The Sadr group is accusing Iran-affiliated groups in Iraq of carrying out the attack.
Moreover, on Wednesday, eight rockets attacked the Khor Mor natural gas plant in the Kurdistan province of Iraq. It is reported that the project has suffered significant damage. 
The rocket attacks have been allegedly carried out by Iran or Iran-affiliated terrorist organisations, which have been targeting the Kurdistan province for the past few days.
UAE’s Dana Gas has been awarded the contract to extract natural gas from Iraq’s Khor Mor project. The plant produces 45 crore cubic feet of natural gas per day. This is the fifth attack on the project in the last ten months. It was revealed that Iranian-made Katyusha rockets were used in the attack on the project in Kurdistan province on Wednesday night.
Iran has been accusing Kurdish rebels of being responsible for riots that erupted against the regime in Iran since September 16. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have launched a crackdown in their country’s Kurdish-majority Khuzestan province. Iran has also stepped up its rocket attacks in Iraq’s Kurdistan region over the past three weeks, increasing military deployments near the border with Iraq.
Iran’s supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, has said that Iran’s enemies, who cannot bear Iran’s progress, are creating riots in Iran. President Ebrahim Raisi directly blamed the United States for the protests in Iran. The protests, now in their fourth week, have been described by the Iranian regime as riots instigated by the West.
‘The United States has realised that the option of military action against Iran will not be viable. Therefore, the United States tried to impose sanctions and humiliating pressure on Iran. But considering the US military action and sanctions are also failing against Iran, the United States and its allies have taken unsuccessful steps to destabilise Iran,’ the President of Iran alleged. Meanwhile, Iraq’s fuel minister has arrived in Tehran to discuss the ongoing rocket attacks by Iran in the Kurdistan region. But US senators are accusing Iraq’s fuel minister of being pro-Iran and anti-Kurdish.
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