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198425
Mon, 08/01/2011 - 09:20
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Iran Protests at Iraq over PJAK Terrorist Activities
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Hassan Danayeefar said Tehran has protested at Baghdad over the terrorist activities freely conducted by the anti-Iran terrorist PJAK group on Iraq's soil.
"Iran's embassy in Baghdad, in a memo of protest to the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has voiced protest over the PJAK terrorist group's attacks and said that the group enters Iran via Iraq's borders and carries out terrorist actions," Danayeefar told FNA on Sunday.
"And this runs counter to the good neighborliness between the two countries," the Iranian diplomat noted.
He further called on Iraqi officials to adopt proper measures to confront the terrorist group, and added that Tehran is waiting for the Iraqi foreign ministry's response.
In July, Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) launched a series of attacks on the bases of the banned group near Iran's border with Iraq.
About 5,000 military forces were deployed in the Northwestern parts of the country along its joint border with the Iraqi Kurdistan region.
During the operations, the IRGC forces killed, injured and arrested tens of terrorists and destroyed their headquarters in the bordering areas of Alvatan near Sardasht city in Northwestern Iran.
Commander of the IRGC Ground Forces Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour emphasized later that the IRGC operations against PJAK would continue till the terrorist group's full annihilation.
PJAK, a militant Kurdish nationalist group with bases in the mountainous regions of Northern Iraq, has been carrying out numerous attacks in Western Iran, Southern Turkey and the Northeastern parts of Syria where the Kurdish populations live.
The separatist group has been fighting to establish an autonomous state, or possibly a new world country, in the area after separating Kurdish regions from Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria.
Iranian intelligence and security officials have repeatedly complained that Washington provides military support and logistical aids for such anti-Iran terrorist groups.
"Iran's embassy in Baghdad, in a memo of protest to the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has voiced protest over the PJAK terrorist group's attacks and said that the group enters Iran via Iraq's borders and carries out terrorist actions," Danayeefar told FNA on Sunday.
"And this runs counter to the good neighborliness between the two countries," the Iranian diplomat noted.
He further called on Iraqi officials to adopt proper measures to confront the terrorist group, and added that Tehran is waiting for the Iraqi foreign ministry's response.
In July, Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) launched a series of attacks on the bases of the banned group near Iran's border with Iraq.
About 5,000 military forces were deployed in the Northwestern parts of the country along its joint border with the Iraqi Kurdistan region.
During the operations, the IRGC forces killed, injured and arrested tens of terrorists and destroyed their headquarters in the bordering areas of Alvatan near Sardasht city in Northwestern Iran.
Commander of the IRGC Ground Forces Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour emphasized later that the IRGC operations against PJAK would continue till the terrorist group's full annihilation.
PJAK, a militant Kurdish nationalist group with bases in the mountainous regions of Northern Iraq, has been carrying out numerous attacks in Western Iran, Southern Turkey and the Northeastern parts of Syria where the Kurdish populations live.
The separatist group has been fighting to establish an autonomous state, or possibly a new world country, in the area after separating Kurdish regions from Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria.
Iranian intelligence and security officials have repeatedly complained that Washington provides military support and logistical aids for such anti-Iran terrorist groups.
