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The United States has indications that Iran has carried out airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Iraq in recent days, US officials said Wednesday.

A senior Iranian official denied that Iran had launched any such airstrikes.

US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the United States had indications that Iran had used F-4 Phantoms to launch the raids in the last several days.

An Iraqi security expert said the strikes took place 10 days ago near the Iranian border.

It is true that Iranian planes hit some targets in Diyala. Of course the government denies it because they have no radars, Hisham al-Hashemi told Reuters.

Diyala is an ethnically mixed province, where the Iraqi army, backed by Kurdish Peshmerga and Shiite militias, last month drove the Islamic State out of several towns and villages.

A British-based analyst said footage on Al Jazeera of an F-4 Phantom striking the Islamic State in Diyala was the first visual evidence of direct Iranian air force involvement in the conflict.

Iran and Turkey are the only regional operators of the F-4, and with the location of the incident not far from the Iranian border and Turkeys unwillingness to get involved in the conflict militarily, indicators point to this being an Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force aircraft, said Gareth Jennings of IHS Janes Defence Weekly.

Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby told a news briefing Tuesday that the United States was not coordinating its military activities with Iran and added that it was up to the Iraqis to manage Iraqi airspace.

Its the Iraqi airspace and (Iraqs) to deconflict. We are not coordinating with nor are we deconflicting with Iranian military, Kirby said. Deconflict in military parlance means to avoid overlap.

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