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Kurdish PJAK rebels kill four Iran's elite
Revolutionary Guards
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Iranian Kurdish PJAK rebels.
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 over 3,000 armed
militiamen.
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April 25, 2012
KERMANSHAH, Iranian Kurdistan, — Kurdish
rebels have killed four members of Iran's elite
Revolutionary Guards in the country's west, a
provincial official told the Mehr news agency on
Wednesday.
The attack was carried out by members of the Iranian
Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) near the town
of Paveh in Iran's Kermanshah Kurdish province on
Tuesday evening, Mehr reported.
"Four members of the Guards were martyred and four
others wounded in the cowardly act," Shahryar
Heydari, the province's ranking security official,
told Mehr.
Heydari said PJAK rebels also suffered casualties,
but did not provide any details.
The PJAK, labelled as "terrorists" by Tehran, has
often clashed with Iranian forces, sparking
retaliatory bombing of their rear bases in the
mountainous border districts of neighbouring Iraqi
Kurdistan.
The report on Wednesday was the first such account
of a deadly conflict between Iranian forces and the
Kurdish rebels since summer last year.
In July 2010, the Islamic republic's Guards launched
a string of operations against the rebels and began
shelling districts near the border with Iraqi
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killing dozens including the rebels' deputy
commander.
Later in September, the Guards said they had forced
the rebels out of Iranian Kurdistan [Eastern
Kurdistan] in northwestern of Iran and killed more
than 180 of them in a summer-long offensive.
The PJAK, or in Kurdish (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.
Led by Haji Ahmadi, the PJAK’s objective is to establish a semi-autonomous
regional entities or Kurdish federal states in Iran, Turkey and Syria similar to
the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq.
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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