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Iran destroys Kurdish PJAK cells on Iraqi
Kurdistan border
13.3.2008
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March 13, 2008
Iranian Kurdistan, -- Iranian security forces
have killed members of two Rebel cells who crossed
the Iraqi border to a Kurdish-populated province
(Iranian Kurdistan) ahead of parliamentary polls,
the Mehr news agency reported Thursday.
"All members of the two groups were killed and many
arms have been seized," said Iraj Hassanzadeh, a
security official in the governor's office of
Iranian Kurdistan province.
"These groups were linked with terrorist and
counter-revolutionary movements," he said, without
giving any further details or the numbers killed.
Iran's northwestern Kurdish-populated areas have
been the scene of deadly clashes with Kurdish
separatist rebels of the Party of Free Life of
Kurdistan (PJAK),www.ekurd.net
which believed to has
bases in northeastern neighbouring Iraqi autonomous
region of Kurdistan.
PJAK (Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan), Since
2004 PJAK took up arms for self-rule in the
country's mainly Kurdistan province northwestern of
Iran. Half the members of PEJAK are women.
Iranian military on Thursday also
shelled three Iraqi border
Kurdish villages. The shells were
apparently aimed at PJAK bases in the area,www.ekurd.net
an Iraqi Kurdistan
official said.
Iran used to shell Iraq's Kurdistan border areas in Qalaat Daza, 135
km northwest of Sulaimaniyah under the pretext of
tracking down PJAK fighters.
Iraqi Kurdistan politician says, both Turkey and
Iran are using
Turkey's Kurdish separatist PKK rebel group (Kurdish
freedom fighters) and Iran's Kurdish PJAK as an
excuse to invade Kurdistan region 'Iraq' to prevent
the establishment of Kurdistan state in the Kurdish
autonomous region in 'northern Iraq', Turkey and Iran fears
this could fan separatism among its own large
Kurdish population.
Tehran has repeatedly accused the United States of
seeking to stir up ethnic unrest by providing
material support to PJAK, which believed is linked
to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
AFP | VOI | Agencies
Iranian Kurdistan
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Iranian Kurdistan (Kurdish: Kurdistana Īranź or
Kurdistana Rojhilat (Eastern Kurdistan) or Rojhilatź
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.
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KDPI
The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran in Kurdish
(Hīzbī Dźmokiratī Kurdistanī Źran) 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
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PJAK
The present leader of the organisation is Haji
Ahmadi. According to the Washington Times, half the
members of PEJAK are women, many of them still in
their teens, and one of the female members of the
leadership council is Gulistan Dugan, a psychology
graduate from the University of Tehran. This is due
primarily to the fact that PEJAK is strongly
supportive of women's rights. PEJAK believes that
women must have a strong role in government and must
be on an equal level with men in leadership
positions.
More about PEJAK- Party for a
Free Life in Kurdistan
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