July
19, 2011
TEHRAN, — A
senior Iranian military commander says the Islamic
Republic will continue efforts to completely weed
out the Party for Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK)
rebel cell.
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)
clashed with PJAK rebels and inflicted heavy
casualties on them during recent days with the
purpose of establishing sustainable security and
fighting against insecurity and instability in
northwestern areas of the country, commander of
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground
Forces Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour said on
Monday.
A top Iranian military commander, Delavar
Ranjbarzadeh, said on Monday that the IRGC has taken
full control of three bases of the
PJAK cell near the Iraqi Kurdistan border.
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Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps
(IRGC) Ground Forces Brigadier General Mohammad
Pakpour. Photo: presstv.ir |
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He added that a large
number of the anti-revolution PJAK members,
including the second-in-command of Mariwan
headquarters, the most important and main PJAK base,
were killed in the clashes with the IRGC forces on
Saturday and Sunday.
Some 30 Iranian soldiers are believed to have been
killed during fierce clashes with PJAK militants on
the Iraqi borders with Iran in northern Iraq’s
Kurdistan Region on Saturday and Sunday,www.ekurd.netIraqi
military source said on Sunday and reported by Aswat
Al Iraq.
The IRGC commander urged the Iraqi government to
maintain its control over border regions, saying,
“Presence of terrorist groups in border areas is a
serious threat to the two countries and will inflict
heavy security and economic damage on people
residing in these areas.
The IRGC disbanded a PJAK cell early on Sunday
following hours-long gun battle between the two
sides in the northwestern Kurdish city of Sardasht,
situated 472 kilometers (293 miles) west of the
Iranian capital of Tehran in the West Azarbaijan
Province [Iranian Kurdistan].
Iran has recently deployed 5,000 military forces in
the northwest of the country along its common border
with the Iraqi Kurdistan region.
The PJAK, or the (Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistane), is a militant Kurdish nationalist group based in Kurdistan region in
Iraq's north that
has been carrying out attacks Iranian forces in the Kurdistan Province of Iran
(Eastern Kurdistan) and other Kurdish-inhabited areas.
PJAK is a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Confederation (Koma Civaken
Kurdistan or KCK), which is an alliance of Kurdish groups and divisions
led by an elected Executive Council.
Since
2004 the PJAK took up arms for self-rule in Kurdistan province northwestern of
Iran (Iranian Kurdistan, Eastern Kurdistan). Half the members of PJAK
are women. The PJAK has about 3,000 armed
militiamen.
Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey all have significant
ethnic Kurdish minorities. Estimate to 12 million
Kurds live in Iran.
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