Iran Delivers Humanitarian Aid Cargo to Iraqi Kurds

Iran delivered a major humanitarian aid cargo to the Iraq to help the people in the Kurdistan Region.
The consignment was delivered to the Iraqi Kurdistan region’s Red Crescent Society on Thursday.

“Iran’s West Azarbaijan Red Crescent Society delivered the relief supplies to its counterparts in Iraqi Kurdistan region on the border area,” Provincial Official Ali Mostafavi said.

He noted that the consignment included 2,000 blankets, and 8,000 canned food as well as other food supplies, blankets and tents.

The official voiced Tehran’s readiness for dispatching humanitarian aid and emergency supplies to the war-hit region.

A report in early July said that the ISIL terrorists were methodically hunting down those opposed to the militants.

The ISIL demanded officials and soldiers pledge allegiance to the caliphate they recently declared or face execution.

More than one million Iraqis have fled their homes the ISIL terrorists seized Mosul, Tikrit and other cities in the Northwest part of the crisis-hit country.

At least 2,461 people were killed in June, the UN and Iraqi officials said.

The refugees in the Kurdish-controlled town of Sinjar, near Tal Afar, said that towns and villages they had fled were now being systematically cleared by the ISIL.

Many of the displaced are Shiites, Christians and ethnic Kurds.