Kurdish TV channel continues broadcasting after missile attack

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% :'Erbil is a useful target because there are important US-and other regional partner-assets located in the city, it is easily and quickly struck from Iran or from Iraq and Syria, and attacking it sends a message to the Americans and their partners to back off from activities that the Iranian leadership views as a threat,' he added.
41% : The first missile strike is recorded in the early hours of the morningResidents peered over their compounds to see the US consulate engulfed in fire on SundayVideos show missile explosions shot by Iran into Erbil, IraqIraq has been rocked by chronic instability since the defeat of the Sunni Islamist group Islamic State in 2017 by a loose coalition of Iraqi, US-led and Iran-backed forces.
38% :'There are a multitude of potential reasons (for the Erbil attack), but the most likely is that the Iranians see Erbil as a hub for its opponents in the region to plan and conduct attacks against Iran and its interests,' Nicholas Heras, deputy director of the Human Security Unit at the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy, told Kurdistan 24.
38% : Shi'ite militia groups close to Iran warn in private that they will resort to violence if they are left out of any ruling coalition.
36% : Iran denies involvement in those attacks.
35% : Iraq and neighboring Syria are regularly the scene of violence between the United States and Iran.
33% : Kurdistan24 TV station is damaged by rockets shot by Iran into the city of Erbil on Sunday

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