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Iranian Kurdish PJAK rebels deny ties to
Israel
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October 2, 2011
BERLIN, — The Iranian Kurdish Party of
Free Life for Kurdistan (PJAK) denied reports that
its operations in and against Iran were supported by
Israel.
Iranian media outlets repeatedly accused Kurdish
PJAK rebels of being trained by Israelis in their
safe haven in the Kurdistan Region.
"We have no relations or agreement with Israel,"
said PJAK leader Rahman Haj Ahmedi, who lives in
Germany.
On the other hand, there was a alliance between the
U.S., Turkey and Iran to fight the Kurdish rebels,
Ahmedi said. |
PJAK leader Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi |
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Turkey would get surveillance
information about Kurdish hide-outs through U.S.
drone operations. Turkey would then share these
information with Iran, Ahmedi claimed
Finally, Ahmedi criticized Kurdistan Region's
President Massoud Barzani and asked what his party
had done that had hurt Kurdistan.
Barzani had called on PJAK and the Kurdistan Workers
Party (PKK) earlier to take the war out of Iraq. "We
will not fight against Kurds," Barzani said. "But it
is not acceptable for PKK and PJAK to continue
forever. They should consider the interests of the
Kurdistan Region." Barzani complains that the
actions of Kurdish rebels provide Iran and Turkey
with an excuse to bomb the Kurdistan Region in
northern Iraq.
The Turkish and Iranian military repeatedly attacked
bordering areas to fight rebels of PKK its offspring
PJAK in their mountainous hide-outs since 2006.
Since mid-June, attacks have increased. So far, the
air strikes killed 12 people, thousands have fled
the area.
The Iranian bombardment of Iraqi Kurdistan’s border
areas had continued for 3 months,www.ekurd.netkilling and injuring many civilians and causing
damage for dozens of houses and agricultural fields
in Iraqi Kurdistan region.
Human Rights Watch said on September 2, that it had
evidence that Iran may have
deliberately targeted civilians in its offenisve
against the rebels.
Kurdish local officials and an NGO in early August
reported that more than 200 Iraqi Kurdish families
had been forced from their homes by weeks of Iranian
shelling of separatist rebel bases in northern Iraq.
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The PJAK, or the (Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistane) (Party of Free Life of
Kurdistan), 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.
Aknews part of this article written by by Karzan
Kareem
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