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Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) have launched missile strikes on multiple terrorist targets in Syria and Iraq.

The targets of the terrorist group Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) in Syria also came under attack, Vardan Voskanyan, a Yerevan-based expert on Iran, said on social media on Tuesday.

"This organization consists mainly of Uyghurs having anti-Chinese sentiments and is backed by the Erdogan regime. Its militants have particularly distinguished themselves by desecrating Christian shrines in Syria,” he wrote on Telegram.

“Therefore, the Iranian strikes in this area is multifaceted; they have destroyed the infrastructures of a terrorist group hostile to China and Christian shrines and supported by Turkey," the expert added.

The IRGC issued two separate statements following the strikes, which it said, were in response to recent terrorist attacks in Iran, a reference to terror bombings in the southeastern city of Kerman as well as a terrorist attack on the Rask police station in Sistan and Baluchistan province, IRNA reported.

The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps in its second statement confirmed the missile attacks on gathering places of the leaders and key elements involved terrorist attacks in Kerman and Rask. It said the part of the missile operation targeted terror hideouts in Syria.

“The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps, in response to the recent crimes of terrorist groups and their unjust killing of our countrymen in Kerman and Rask, identified and destroyed a number of key terror commanders and elements, especially Daesh, in the occupied territories of Syria by firing a number of ballistic missiles,” read the statement issued late on Monday.