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Iran-Kurdistan: Iran says foils railway
blast plot
13.11.2006
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TEHRAN, November
13, -- Iran said it has arrested four men who were
plotting to blow up the railway line in the
country's north linking Iran to Europe, the
semi-official Fars news agency reported Monday.
"Border guards have arrested four men linked to
foreigners, who wanted to blow up the Iran-Europe
railway with twenty kilos of TNT (Trinitrotoluene),"
said Mohammad Ali Zaker, the border guards' chief in
the town of Khoy.
Iran's sole railway link to Europe is through Turkey
and has a weekly passenger train to Istanbul.
Zaker said the men, known "rebels" in the
northwestern Azarbaijan province, had confessed but
did not specify when the arrest took place.
"One of the men arrested was a former member of the
outlawed Democrat Party," he said in reference to
the separatist group the Kurdistan Democrat Party of
Iran.
Zaker did not specify the background of the other
men.
Last August Iran arrested five Iranian Kurdish
militants of the Kurdistan Democrat Party of Iran as
well as four men from neighboring Turkey's Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK) in clashes with the police.
Iran has been battling infiltrations by Pejak (Party
of Free Life of Kurdistan), a Kurdish group linked
to the PKK, and the KDPI-Kurdistan Democrat Party of
Iran from the Kurdish regions in Turkey and Iraq
over the past year.
AFP
Iranian Kurdistan ( Kurdistana Rojhilat (Eastern
Kurdistan) or Rojhilatę Kurdistan (East of
Kurdistan)) is an unofficial name for the parts of
Iran inhabited by Kurds and has borders with Iraq
and Turkey. It includes the greater parts of West
Azerbaijan province, Kurdistan Province, Kermanshah
Province, and Ilam Province. Kurds form the majority
of the population of this region with an estimated
population of 4 million. The region is the eastern
part of the greater cultural-geographical area
called Kurdistan.
The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran is a Kurdish
opposition group in Iranian Kurdistan which seeks
the attainment of Kurdish national rights within a
democratic federal republic of Iran. The current
General Secretary of the Democratic Party of Iranian
Kurdistan is Mustafa Hijri
"Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan" (PDKI) was
founded in Mahabad, Iran, on August 16, 1945. PDKI
replaced the Komeley Jiyanewey Kurd (Council of
Kurdish Resurrection) which had been formed three
years earlier. Just 159 days after its foundation in
January 22, 1946, the Party, availing itself of
expedient circumstances in a section of Iranian
Kurdistan, established the " Republic of Kurdistan
", usually referred to by historians as the Republic
of Mahabad , the reason being its choice of Mahabad
as the capital.
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