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| DoD denies Iran's charge of training Kurdish 'terrorists |
| 2009-05-20 |
| The US Defense Department on Tuesday rejected accusations from Iran that Washington was training "terrorists" in Iraq's Kurdish region and countered that Tehran was meddling in Iraq. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday charged the United States was plotting against Tehran on its western border, "spending money and handing out weapons to be used against the Islamic republic" of Iran. Iran's supreme leader said in a televised speech in the western Iranian province of Kordestan that the United States was paying money to young Kurds "to create mercenaries." The border region with Iraq has often seen deadly clashes between Iran's armed forces and the Kurdish separatists. Iranians have targeted the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), an Iranian Kurdish separatist group which has launched attacks on Iran from rear-supply bases in the Kurdish mountains of northern Iraq. |
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