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Iranian shelling continues on Iraqi
Kurdistan border area
22.8.2007
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August
22, 2007
Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan region (Iraq), -- The
Iranian shelling on the southern borders of Qaleat
Daza district in Sulaimaniyah continued, the mayor
of the district said on Wednesday.
"The Iranian shelling started at 11:00 am on Tuesday
on the border regions in Qalaat Daza, where Qandoula
village came under shelling for several hours,"
Hussein Muhammad said.
"The shelling caused severe damage to the region and
set farms on fire but without casualties," he added.
Eyewitnesses from the district said on Monday that
Iranian choppers spread leaflets, calling residents
to leave their regions.
The official spokesman for the government of
Kurdistan announced that his government would hold
investigation on these leaflets.
The spokesman for the Peshmerga fighters held the
federal government in Baghdad responsible for taking
any decision to respond on the Iranian shelling.
The recent Iranian wave of attacks came after some
Iranian opposition group claimed shooting down an
Iranian copter in the area.
On Saturday, the official Iranian news agency (IRNA)
said five elements from the Iranian Revolutionary
Guards were killed and six others wounded when a
military helicopter crashed near Qandil mount near
the borders with Iraq.
"The crash was due to bad weather circumstances in
the area," IRNA quoted a military source as saying.
The Iranian news agency said "the copter was
transporting soldiers in a surveillance mission in
the area, when the accident occurred."
Meanwhile, a source from Iraq's Kurdistan Government
said clashes broke out between the
PEJAK (Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan) fighters
and the Iranian forces on the borderline between
Iraq and Iran without giving further details about
the clashes.
PEJAK (Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan) , took up
arms for self-rule in the country's mainly Kurdistan
province northwestern of Iran. Half the members of
PEJAK are Kurdish women.
The spokesman for the Peshmerga Ministry in Iraq's
Kurdistan government said "clashes were going on
between elements from the PKK and the Iranian forces
but we do not have information as to the casualties
on both sides."
The Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) is active in the
areas near the borders with Turkey and Iran.
More than 37,000 Turkish soldiers and Kurdish PKK
guerrillas have been killed since 1984 when the PKK
took up arms for self-rule in the country's mainly
Kurdish southeast of Turkey. Turkey is home to over
25 million ethnic Kurds.
VOI
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