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Iran arrests three Kurdish rebels near its
border with Kurdistan
4.5.2006
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TEHERAN, 4 May
2006, Iranian armed forces have arrested three
Kurdish rebels close to the frontier with
Kurdistan-Iraq, a government newspaper said on
Thursday.
On Iran’s western borders, security forces
reportedly detained three ethnic Kurdish rebels from
the Pejak group -- which Iran alleges is also linked
to the Iraq-based Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK),
which is fighting the Turkish government.
The paper said the arrests took place between the
Iranian towns of Baneh and Saghez, situated close to
the border with Iraq’s mainly-Kurdish Sulaimaniyah
province.
On Sunday, Iraq’s defense ministry said Iranian
forces had entered Iraqi territory and shelled PKK
positions over a period of 24 hours.
Iran has refused to confirm or deny its troops had
crossed into Iraqi soil.
Iran is bound by a treaty with Turkey to fight the
outlawed PKK, which has waged a two-decade
insurgency against Ankara for self-rule in Turkey’s
mainly Kurdish southeast.
In return, Turkey has pledged to fight the Iranian
armed opposition group, the Iraq-based People’s
Mujahedeen.
Iranian officials have also accused London and
Washington of supporting ethnic minority rebels
operating within the Islamic republic’s sensitive
border areas, amid a worsening stand-off over Iran’s
nuclear ambitions.
Reuters
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