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Iranian artillery targets Kurds in Iraqi
Kurdistan: separatists
21.7.2006 |
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SULAIMANIYAH,
Kurdistan-Iraq, July 20,-- Iranian artillery
bombarded separatist Kurd positions inside Kurdistan
(northeast Iraq) on Thursday, according to an
official from the breakaway movement.
Rostam Joudi, a member of the Pejak party, told AFP
that Iranian forces fired shells across the border
towards his group's positions in four villages near
the towns of Rania and Kalaat Diza in the Iraqi
province of Sulaimaniyah.
It was not clear whether there were any casualties
in the barrage, which lasted for around an hour, he
added.
Iranian artillery last targeted Iraq-based Pejak
forces in March and April of this year, killing four
people on the countries' mountainous frontier.
According to Tehran, Pejak is allied to the
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a militant
separatist group which since the early 1980s has
been fighting for the independence of Turkey's
Kurdish minority.
The Kurds' traditional homeland stretches across
portions of southeast Turkey, northern Syria, Iraq
and Iran. Turkey and Iran accuse Kurds based in Iraq
of carrying out cross-border attacks.
AFP
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