Iran - Kurds in gunbattle with Revolutionary Guards

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http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/070920162
At least two Peshmerga soldiers of the Kurdistan Democratic Party-Iran (KDP-I) were killed in renewed clashes with Iranian Revolutionary Guards in villages of the predominantly Kurdish city of Sardasht.

“Last night a group of our Peshmerga soldiers were ambushed by the Iranian forces near the Bolfat area, killing two Peshmerga named Azad Ali and Amir Nadir,” the KDP-I council said in a statement.

“We have not gathered information on the Iranian forces,” it added.
PressTV-Iran forces kill militants near Iraq border
Iranian security forces have killed 12 counter-revolutionary militants in the northwest of the country near the border with Iraq.

In a statement on Wednesday, the Iranian Intelligence Ministry said that the militants were killed in the city of Sardasht in West Azarbaijan province.

A group of 12 gunmen, who sought to carry out acts of sabotage inside the country with the support and guidance of Saudi Arabia and extra-regional countries, has been busted, the ministry said.

Earlier, governor of Sardasht, Aziz Hassani, had told IRNA that border guards engaged the counter-revolutionary militants on Tuesday night and their clashes lasted for several hours into Wednesday.

The Iranian forces sustained no casualties during the clashes in the border city, the official said, adding that security had been restored.

 

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http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/090920161
American and European military advisers have trained members of the Iranian Kurdish group the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) alongside Peshmerga forces in weapons and explosives for their participation in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) on several occasions.
PAK leader Hussein Yazdanpana told the Associated Press: “They helped and trained us within the framework of the fight against Daesh,”
Yazdanpana allays any fears that training his group was for their fight against the Iranian government, saying that it was merely for their role in combating ISIS in Iraq.

He stressed meanwhile that fighting ISIS would not shift their focus from fighting for their rights in Iran.

A number of Kurdish groups from outside the Kurdistan Region joined forces to help the Peshmerga to defend the borders of the autonomous Kurdistan Region in the summer of 2014 when ISIS militants launched a multi-front offensive against the Kurds in Nineveh and Kirkuk.

Among these groups were PAK and the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI). They have acted under the auspices of the Peshmerga Ministry, which some believe justifies the training by the coalition forces.

 

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http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iran/190920161
At least two Iranian soldiers were killed in clashes on the northwestern border with Iraqi Kurdistan, sources said.

One source told Rudaw that clashes took place in the Barimergan area of Piranshahr, a town in Iran’s West Azerbaijan province.

He could not tell who was involved in the clashes, but according to the information received by Rudaw at least two members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards were killed in the area.

On Saturday morning, Iran resumed cross-border shelling from West Azerbaijan into the Kurdistan Region, targeting the Barbzinan area in Sidakan, a few kilometers inside Iraqi Kurdistan’s Soran district.

A Rudaw reporter in the area said that, alongside the shelling, there were clashes that involved light machine guns but there were no reports of casualties.

 

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http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iran/25092016
The Democratic Party of the Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) says Iran’s nuclear deal with the West forced the party to break its ceasefire with Tehran, which had lasted two decades, a party official told Rudaw.

“Since Iran has signed the atomic [nuclear deal] agreement, Iran thinks whatever they do, the outside world does not care. That is why we were forced to choose this approach,” Hassan Sharafi, the deputy leader of the PDKI said.

Since March, the PDKI Peshmerga’s have engaged in clashes with the Iranian security forces, and the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in June which led to tens of dead and/or wounded on both sides.

“We did not attack any military position or any state institutions. Our Peshmerga’s were acting in self-defense. It was the Iranians who attacked our Peshmerga’s and our comrades.” Sharafi said.

Last week, Iran’s artillery attacked the Kurdistan Region’s northeastern border, which led to the displacement of at least 70 Kurdish families. The PDKI first said, on its twitter account, that its bases were the target, alongside civilians and agricultural

 

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PressTV-IRGC busts terrorist group in western Iran
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) forces have dismantled a terrorist group, backed by the United States and the Israeli regime, in the country’s west near the border with Iraq, killing all of its members.

Commander of IRGC's Ground Force Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour said the terrorists were arrested in the border areas of the western Iranian province of Kermanshah on Tuesday as they were trying to infiltrate into the country to spread insecurity and conduct acts of terror and sabotage.

He said the Iranian intelligence and security forces tracked down the 12-member terrorist group and killed all of them during heavy clashes, adding that three IRGC forces were wounded in the clashes.

Pakpour stated that the Iranian security forces also confiscated a large amount of weapons and ammunition from the terrorists.

 

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http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iran/06102016
Kurdish armed group confirms fighters killed in Iran

The armed wing of the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK) confirmed that a group if its guerrilla fighters were killed in clashes with Iranian security forces on Tuesday in Kermanshah province, western Kurdistan, Iran.

The East Kurdistan Defense Forces, or YRK as it is known by its Kurdish initials, said in a written statement that the clash happened as a result of “a conspiracy” by the Iranian revolutionaries and its “affiliated gang groups” near the Salasbajani town in Kermanshah.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) reported late Tuesday that they had killed 12 militants of a “terrorist” group near the Iraqi border, in the same area mentioned by the YRK.

“The group of 12 militants were all killed and a significant amount of weapons and ammunition were seized from the terrorists,” the Iranian semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour as saying.

Pakpour added that the clashes began at noon on Tuesday and lasted for hours in the town of Salasbajani in the Kermanshah province near the Iraqi border.

Pakpour also revealed that three Iranian soldiers were wounded in the confrontation.

 

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http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iran/111020161
Iran may have used “chemical weapons” against 12 Kurdish guerrilla fighters killed on October 4 in clashes between Iranian security forces and the East Kurdistan Defence Forces (YRK) in western Iran, the group claimed on Tuesday adding that they will seek revenge for the deaths.

“The enemy with the intensive use of its air and ground forces attacked our comrades. There is a suspicion that chemical weapons may have been used. Also, according to the information we have obtained, there is a possibility that our comrades had been poisoned by mercenaries. That is why the Iranian forces were able to easily conduct an assault against our comrades and martyr 12 of our comrades,” reads a statement published on the website of the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK), the political wing of the YRK.

The clash happened near Salasbajani town in Kermanshah, in western Iran.

The leadership council for PJAK said this incident, yet again proved that Iran had breached the terms of the ceasefire between the two sides.

 

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PressTV-Iran foils Takfiri plot in Fars province
On Tuesday, Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) foiled an attempt by a team of counter-revolutionary terrorists to infiltrate the country via its northwestern province of Kordestan.

Brigadier General Mohammad Hossein Rajabi, the commander of the IRGC’s Kordestan arm, made the announcement, noting that the terrorists were from the Kurdistan Free Life Party, also known as PJAK.

IRGC forces engaged the gang in the Golchidar area of the province’s Marivan county, inflicting material losses and casualties on them and forcing them to flee.

 

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http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iran/13102016
An armed Kurdish group in Iran claimed it has killed at least 32 Iranian security forces and affiliated “mercenaries” this week in retaliation for the killing of 12 of its fighters last week.

The YRK said in two statements released on Wednesday and Thursday that these attacks were made in “retaliation” for the deaths of 12 of its fighters killed on October 4.

“In addition to warning the local forces and the Islamic Republic of Iran, we state that with the continuation of these actions, our retaliation will be even stronger,” one statement said on Thursday.