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Elite Iranian force commander is killed in
clashes with Kurdish PJAK rebels
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Six Iran
troops killed in clashes with Kurd rebels
July
23, 2011
SARDASHT, Iranian Kurdistan, —
A senior officer of Iran's elite
Revolutionary Guards was among six soldiers killed
in clashes with Iranian Kurdish rebels on the border
with Iraqi Kurdistan, Fars news agency reported on
Friday.
"General Assemi of the Qom branch of the Islamic
Revolutionary Guards Corps was killed along with
five of his comrades in clashes with terrorist
rebels of the PJAK (Party of Free Life of Kurdistan)
in the Sardasht area," the agency said, without
giving any further details.
It said a car blew up in northwestern Iran, but did
not say when the attack took place.
Iranian troops launched a major offensive on
Saturday against PJAK rebels operating out of
rear-bases in neighbouring Kurdistan region of Iraq.
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Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards march through
Tehran during the annual military parade in
September 2010. A senior officer of Iran's elite
Revolutionary Guards was among six soldiers killed
in clashes with Kurdish rebels on the border with
Iraq, Fars news agency has said. Photo: AFP |
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On
Tuesday, the autonomous Kurdistan regional
government KRG in Iraqi Kurdistan demanded Iran
respect the border after a Guards commander said
Iranian forces had taken "full control" of three
PJAK camps inside Iraq.
In Tehran, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards
ground forces Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour
demanded Baghdad and the Kurdish regional
authorities prevent the rebels from attacking Iran
from Iraqi territory.
The fighting had already left at least two Guards --
a colonel and a captain -- killed and three wounded,
according to security officials in Tehran. PJAK has
said two of its fighters were killed and four
wounded.
Iranian forces have repeatedly shelled border
districts of Iraq's Kurdish region, targeting PJAK
bases.
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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