Iran vows to root out PJAK terrorist cell
A senior Iranian military commander says the Islamic Republic will continue efforts to completely weed out the Party for Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) terrorist cell.
Iran’ s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) clashed with PJAK terrorists 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 Muhammad 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 terrorist cell near the Iraqi border.
He added that a large number of the anti-revolution PJAK members, including the second-in-command of Marvan headquarters, the most important and main PJAK base, were killed in the clashes with the IRGC forces on Saturday and Sunday.
Pakpour pointed out that the US and Israel have always supported acts of terror and caused insecurity, adding that the IRGC is duty-bound to defend security and peace of Iran’s Kurdish population.
He stated that the IRGC forces strongly fought PJAK members, who hatched plots against the Iranian people and intensified insecurity, and destroyed their bases while leaving tens of terrorist killed and wounded.
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 city of Sardasht, situated 472 kilometers (293 miles) west of the Iranian capital of Tehran in the West Azarbaijan Province.
Iran has recently deployed 5,000 military forces in the northwest of the country along its common border with the Iraqi Kurdistan region.
The purpose of the deployment is holding military maneuvers with the aim of stabilizing the border area and fighting counterrevolutionary groups.
Members of the terrorist PJAK group -- an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) -- regularly engage in armed clashes with Iranian security forces along the country’ s western borders with Iraq’ s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
Source: presstv.ir
