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TEHRAN, Nov 12 (AFP) - 15h07 - Iranian border
guards killed one Kurdish rebel and arrested another
in clashes in the northwestern province of West
Azarbayjan, the student agency ISNA reported
Saturday.
"The two Pejak agents, who had entered the area for
political and military purposes, had been identified
by police. One was killed and another one injured
and arrested in the fighting," said Mohammad-Sadegh
Mohsenpour, governor of the provincial capital
Oroumieh.
Pejak is a rebel group that the Iranian authorities
say is linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK),
which waged a 15 year insurgency against Ankara for
self rule in the Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast.
Reports concerning major insurgent attacks by Kurds
in recent months -- notably the Pejak -- have spoken
of at least 120 Iranian police killed and a further
64 injured.
Tehran and Ankara are linked by an accord calling on
Iran to fight the PKK and for Turkey to fight the
People's Mujahedeen, an armed Iranian opposition
group based in Iraq.
Iran has pointed the finger of blame at the
international forces in Iraq for the recent unrest
in Kurdish and Arab communities in its south-western
provinces that border Iraq.
AFP
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