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| 'Iran kills, injures 30 PJAK forces' |
| 2011-09-04 |
| [Iran Press TV] A front man for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says 30 members of the Party for Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) terrorist group have been killed or injured in northwestern Iran over the past two days. PJAK's recent casualties have been inflicted since Friday afternoon, when the IRGC launched a series of operations against the terrorist group, Colonel Hamid Ahmadi said on Saturday. "The operations to clear the country's northwestern area of the members of PJAK terrorist group will continue with strength," IRNA quoted him as saying. He added that the Sargalleh heights have been cleared of PJAK forces. Ahmadi went on to say that PJAK members are positioned on the northwestern border areas of "Jasusan" and "Qandil." The IRGC launched the new anti-PJAK operations after the terrorist group refused to clear its forces out of Iran's northwestern areas and killed two local Iranian civilians. Members of the PJAK terrorist group -- an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) -- regularly engage in armed festivities with Iranian security forces along the country's western borders with Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region. Iran has recently deployed 5,000 military forces in the northwest of the country, along its common border with the Iraqi Kurdistan region, to fight counterrevolutionary groups. |
| Posted by:Fred |