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1329:(PKK) said they withdrew all PJAK fighters out of Iran and sent them to PKK camps in the Qandil mountains. He said they replaced PJAK forces on the Iranian border with PKK forces to prevent further clashes and called on Iran to end attacks because unlike the PJAK, the PKK was not at war with Iran. Karayılan released the following statement: "As the PKK, we have not declared any war against Iran. We do not wish to fight against the Islamic Republic of Iran either. Why? Because one of the aims of the international forces who seek to re-design the region is to besiege Iran. Currently, they are more preoccupied with Syria. If they just manage to work things out there as they wish, it will be Iran's turn next. As Kurds, we do not think it quite right to be involved in a war with Iran at such a stage. You have no interest in targeting the PKK. ... You must end this conflict. It is America that wants this conflict to go on. Because these attacks of yours serve America's interests. They want both the PKK and Iran to grow weaker." 1001:
Kurdish revolts, however, PJAK's leaders initially worked only to maintain and build a Kurdish national identity. After a series of government crackdowns against Kurdish activists and intellectuals, the group's leadership moved to the safety of Iraqi Kurdistan in 1999. There they settled in the area controlled by the PKK on the slopes of Mount Qandil—less than 16 kilometres (10 mi) from the Iranian border. Once established at Qandil and operating under the PKK's security umbrella, PJAK adopted many of the political ideas and military strategies of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, whose theories had initially inspired PJAK's founders while still in Iran. The PKK's ideological influence also transformed PJAK from a civil rights movement to a more ambitious and multi-directional independence movement, aided by the transfer of many seasoned PKK fighters of Iranian origin into PJAK.
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while claiming to have inflicted "heavy losses" on the militants. They announced that they had captured three militant bases, one of which was identified as Marvan and was said to be the leading PJAK camp in the region. PJAK militants claimed that they only lost two fighters during the attack carried out by the Iranian forces.
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while over 800 people had been displaced by the fighting. At least 3 civilians were killed. During clashes in the Jasosan and Alotan heights the next day, Iranian forces claimed to have killed over 21 PJAK fighters, confirming that two Revolutionary Guards had been killed and two had been injured during the clashes.
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On June 6, 2013, Yusuf Hamzelu, a member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, was killed near the northwestern border of Iran, according to Iran's Mehr News Agency. He was buried in Zandan on June 10. The Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), PKK's Iranian branch, denied the news report in a media release and
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On December 28, 2011, Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps clashed with PJAK forces in Baneh in northwest Iran. PJAK reported that it was attacked by Iranian government forces, which led to the death of nine government officials; PJAK says it sustained no casualties. The Fars news agency, which is close
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On August 8, 2011, Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi, the leader of PJAK, said the armed militant group is prepared to negotiate with Iran and maintained that Kurdish issues need to be solved through "peaceful means". In an exclusive interview with Rudaw, Haji Ahmadi acknowledged that in some cases compromise
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killed at least five PJAK members and captured one named Saman Naseem, in a raid that destroyed one of the group's headquarters in northwestern Iran. PJAK claimed 21 Iranian soldiers were killed in the clashes. Iranian authorities on the other hand confirmed their casualties at 1 killed and 3 injured
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on April 3, 2006. On April 10, 2006, seven PJAK members were arrested in Iran, on suspicion that they killed three Iranian security force personnel. Shortly afterward, on April 21, and again a week later, Iranian troops fired nearly 100 artillery shells at PJAK positions near Mount Qandil and briefly
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On early January, "Gloria Center" of the IDC published that despite the claims of the Iranians to have destroyed PJAK, the organization has survived the assault. PJAK was reported to be engaged in the construction of new defensive positions close to the border. On January 4, it was reported that the
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The exact history of PJAK is widely disputed. Turkey and Iran claim that PJAK is no more than an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). According to some sources, members of the PKK founded the PJAK in 2004 as an Iranian equivalent to their leftist-nationalist insurgency against the Turkish
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members and one commander while Revolutionary Guard forces killed 35 PJAK fighters and captured several others during clashes on July 25. By July 26, more than 50 PJAK fighters and 8 Revolutionary Guards had been killed, and at least 100 PJAK fighters had been wounded according to Iranian sources,
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declared that they had cleared all areas of PJAK activities and that they had reached an agreement with the Iraqi central government and the Kurdistan Regional Government, in which they vowed to keep the border peaceful. According to Fars news, Revolutionary Guard commander General Abdollah Araqi
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The battle ended inconclusively and on September 12, the cease fire was restored. Iranian officials claimed to have captured three PJAK camps and to have destroyed PJAK's military capability. The organization dismissed this, asserting that its fighters had defeated an Iranian attempt to seize the
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against Iranian forces, carrying them out with small arms and grenades. Following their attacks, PJAK militants often cross back into Iraq and into the regions of Iraqi Kurdistan. This tactic is often responsible for subsequent Iranian retaliation that results in civilian casualties, as it leads
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Kurdish casualties are estimated by the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) at more than 30,000 civilian dead in addition to 4,000 Kurdish fighters. Along with the dead, there have been tens of thousands of people imprisoned; hundreds of villages destroyed and hundreds of thousands of people
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According to founding members of PJAK, however, the group began in Iran around 1997 as an entirely peaceful student-based human rights movement. The group was inspired by the success of Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region and by the PKK's struggle in Turkey. Discouraged by the failure of previous
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PJAK is made up of Iranian Kurds whose members attack Iran rather than Turkey, but who are also based in the Kurdish region of Iraq. Israel supports PJAK's anti-Iran mobilization. The complication is that the US supports PJAK attacks in Iran, even while it condemns identical PKK attacks on
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retaliated with bombardments on suspected PJAK positions in US-occupied Iraq along the Iranian border. A number of civilians died as a result. The PKK's Roj TV claimed that PJAK troops killed four Iranian soldiers on May 27, in a clash near the town of Maku in Iranian Kurdistan.
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One of the top officials in the PKK made a statement in late 2006, that "If the US is interested in PJAK, then it has to be interested in the PKK as well" referring to the alliance between the two groups and their memberships in the Kurdistan Democratic Confederation (KCK).
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of hostile foreign intelligence services, namely the intelligence services of the United States, as well as those operated by Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom. Moreover, Turkish authorities have made allegations on links between PJAK and the United States.
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said in a visit to Tehran that an agreement had been reached between the Kurdistan Regional Government and the PJAK, in which the PJAK had agreed to end its armed activities in the region and that the borders between Iran and the Kurdistan Region would now be safe.
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On July 29, suspected PJAK militants blew up the Iran-Turkey gas pipeline, which was repaired the next day. On August 1, Iranian forces killed 3 and arrested 4 of the militants said to be responsible for the attack, at least one of which was a Turkish citizen.
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Following massive clashes in summer 2011, a cease-fire was declared between the parties, with Iran claiming victory and PJAK allegedly ending all armed operations as of 29 September 2011. Since then, several violent incidents have occurred, including the
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that Haji Ahmadi's meeting was with the "high-level officials" and they have discussed "future of Iran". Washington has downplayed the event. Ahmadi, however, denied later any relations with the US and accused them of cooperating with Turkey and Iran.
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Since the Iranian Revolution, there has been an ongoing conflict between Iran's central government and Kurdish political movements rooted in the predominantly Kurdish region of western Iran. The level of violence has ebbed and flowed with peaks of
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fire in Iranian Kurdistan province. Also during October, 2 PJAK members were executed. Following the hanging of the two militants on October 25, some protests took place outside the Iranian consulate in Erbil, as well as in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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In July 2005, massive three-week long riots in North-West Iran, met by massive security response, left some 20 Kurds dead and 300 wounded. The protests erupted following the killing of an activist by Iranian security forces in the city of
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As with the PKK, PJAK leaders say their long-term goals are to establish an autonomous Kurdish region within the Iranian state. It is mainly focused on replacing Iran's current form of government with a democratic and federal government.
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According to Aljazeera, Turkey's minister of interior has said that Turkey and Iran will conduct a joint operation to tackle the Kurdish activists. However, the minister did not disclose the time and location of the intended operation.
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PJAK's leaders have twice kidnapped groups of Iranian soldiers in 2003 and 2004. In both instances Iranian soldiers were released unharmed after being tried and acquitted for crimes against the Kurdish people by ad hoc PJAK courts in
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rejected the cease-fire declared by PJAK as "meaningless", as long as PJAK forces remained on the borders of the Islamic Republic. Iran also said its troops had killed 30 PJAK fighters and wounded 40 in several days of fighting.
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urged "international organizations, human-rights supporters and the international community to make efforts to stop the bloodshed of the people by the Islamic regime of Iran". Hussein Yazdanpanah, the general secretary of the
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In February 2006, 10 protestors were killed by police in the city of Maku. PJAK responded with three attacks against two Iranian bases. In retaliation, PJAK claims to have killed 24 members of Iranian security forces in a
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On April 25, 2012, in a clash near Paveh, in Kermanshah province of Iran, 4 IRGC officers were killed and 4 others wounded. Casualties were also inflicted to PJAK, but there were no estimations available.
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100–120 killed During 2005, some 100–120 Iranian security forces killed, according to PJAK claims; unknown PJAK casualties. According to Elling, 120 Iranian soldiers were killed in the conflict in 2005.
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in order to seek more open support from the US both politically and militarily, but it was later said that he only made limited contacts with officials in Washington. Biryar Gabar, a PJAK commander from
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in which he expressed his judgment that the U.S. is likely to be supporting and coordinating PJAK, since PJAK operates and is based in Iraqi territory, which is under the control of the U.S. supported
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Two militants affiliated to PJAK were reported to have been killed and another wounded by the IRIB TV website on June 19, 2011, in Iran's northwestern town of Chaldran in West Azerbaijan province.
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in June 2006, PJAK spokesman Ihsan Warya was paraphrased as stating that he "nevertheless points out that PJAK really does wish it were an agent of the United States, and that disappointed that
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The September 2006 Sardasht incident (an Iran–Iraq cross-border raid) was a military operation which took place on Iran–Iraqi Kurdistan border, in which at least 30 Kurdish militants of the
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According to numerous news reports from 2004 to present, casualties range between 669 and 979; these figures are a mix of PJAK claims, Iranian government claims and third party analysis.
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Iranian forces to mistake civilian villages with PJAK outposts and bases. PJAK is believed to have some heavier weaponry in its Mount Qandil camp such as RPGs and heavy machine-guns.
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On September 29, 2011, Iranian sources reported PJAK had officially surrendered after 180 deaths and 300 injured. According to another Iranian source, Iranian ambassador to Iraq
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recorded 434 fatalities (ranging from 429 to 673) in the Iran–PJAK conflict from 2005 until 2011. These figures however do not include casualties from the year 2010.
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http://pukmedia.com/english/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9308:pjaks-ceasefire-awaits-irans-response&catid=30:kurdistan&Itemid=388
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On early August, the Iran-based Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) announced that it is "ready to send fighters to Syrian Kurdistan to fight beside their people."
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In August 2007, PJAK claimed it managed to down another Iranian military helicopter that was conducting a forward operation of bombardment by Iranian forces.
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displaced. The local economy of an already under-developed region has been severely damaged by the conflict, as of course has the Iranian economy as a whole.
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soldiers died in separate clashes with PJAK. There were also two clashes between the PJAK and the IRGC in mid-April near areas along the border with Turkey.
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According to Kurdish sources, as many as 100,000 state security forces backed by helicopters, moved into the region to crack down on the demonstrations. The
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is inevitable and indicated that PJAK is willing to lay down its arms. He said fighting may not help Kurds secure "political and cultural rights" in Iran.
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According to Kurdish officials, Iranian troops raided northern Iraq on August 23, 2007, inspecting several villages suspected of being PJAK strongholds.
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hasn't made contact." The Slate article continues stating that the PJAK wishes to be supported by and work with the United States in overthrowing the
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Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) of Iran said Islamic Republic forces have violated the terms of the ceasefire between the two sides, relating to the
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2004 clashes – 10 Kurdish demonstrators killed, unknown number of Iranian security forces killed in retaliation by PJAK (first PJAK armed attack).
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April 25, 2012 – in Paveh (Kermanshah province), 4 Revolutionary Guards officers were killed and 4 others wounded; unknown casualties to PJAK.
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First cease fire established in September 2011, as Iran's government claimed victory, while PJAK allegedly withdrew from Iranian territory.
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Despite condemning PKK attacks against Turkey, the US government is said to be supporting PJAK. In early 2006, US Secretary of State
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write "he Israelis are also helping train PJAK for its armed forays into Iran. But given the sentiment among Arabs and Muslims, the
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and on April 1 four border guards were killed and three others were wounded in an attack against a police station near the city of
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In 2018, the PJAK suggested creating a coalition of Kurdish groups resisting the Iranian regime according to the Jerusalem Post.
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In August 2015, PJAK claimed killing 33 Iranian soldiers in two separate incidents with Iran confirming only five casualties.
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25 May-2 June clashes – 8 PJAK militants killed; 92 Iranian soldiers and para-militaries killed (PJAK claim). 21 PJAK and 7
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declared that the conflict had ended after PJAK had accepted Iran's terms and withdrawn all its forces from Iranian soil.
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Iran–Turkey Relations, 1979–2011: Conceptualising the Dynamics of Politics, Religion and Security in Middle-Power States
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March 2011 Sanandaj attacks – 2–3 Iranian police killed, 3-5 wounded; unknown number of PJAK also killed in retaliation.
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actually accused Iran of hiding the fact that the Iranian soldier was killed by the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in Syria.
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On August 14, 4 Revolutionary Guardsmen were killed and 3 wounded during mine dismantlement in Kurdistan province.
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and PJAK, in which PJAK claimed to kill 7 Iranian soldiers and lose 2 fighters; Iran didn't comment on the event.
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and another clash in April 2012. In 2013, the confrontations became more frequent, including clashes in May, the
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On September 28, 2006, Iran said that two members of the PKK blew up a gas pipeline to Turkey near the town of
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was not considered a stronghold of PJAK, that appeared to have been the target of the raid. According to the
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On March 24, two Iranian police officers were killed and three others injured in two attacks in the city of
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are giving the group equipment, training, and targeting information in order to cause destruction in Iran.
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August 14 – 4 Revolutionary Guards killed and 3 wounded during mine dismantlement in Kurdistan province.
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in a similar way to the US eventually cooperated with Kurdish organisations in Iraq in overthrowing the
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sought US$ 75 million in extra to fund "anti-government propaganda and opposition groups inside Iran".
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Kucinich Questions the President On US Trained Insurgents In Iran: Sends Letter To President Bush
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Iran responded a week later by attacking PJAK positions along the border area of Panjwin inside
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Despite the supposed cooperation between Turkey and Iran, Turkey has accused Iran and its ally
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claimed that over 100 members of the Iranian security forces were killed by PJAK during 2005.
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In June 2014, Iranian forces claimed to clash PJAK militants and killing at least 2 of them.
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province. According to updated reports 18 policemen and 8 militants were killed in a fierce
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The Iranian news agency IRNA reported on October 11, 2008 that members of the paramilitary
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and training them in spy-craft and sabotage. Also, "a government consultant with ties to
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The U.S. and Israeli involvement is also acknowledged by several scholars, including
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In August 2008, under Iranian pressure, one of Iraqi Kurdistan's ruling parties, the
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2008 West Azerbaijan clashes – 13 PJAK militants killed, 24 wounded (Iranian claim).
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admitted that the United States "supported and encouraged" PJAK against Iran during
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The PJAK group's first armed attack took place in 2004 in the area of the city of
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In February 2015, Iran executed an individual accused of being a PJAK member.
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has accused the US of fighting the Kurdish rebels alongside Turkey and Iran.
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and provinces of Western Iran. PJAK is closely affiliated with the militant
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The Kurds Ascending: The Evolving Solution to the Kurdish Problem in Iraq
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units killed four PJAK militants in a clash close to the Iraqi border.
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took place also in May 2013, with at least 2 Iranian soldiers killed.
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crossed the Iraqi border, according to the Iraqi Ministry of Defense.
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On October 10, 5 IRGC members were killed in Kurdistan province.
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against PJAK compounds in the mountainous regions of northern
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On October 31, 1 Iranian border guard killed by militants.
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condemned PJAK operations against Iran multiple times.
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2010 Khoy incident – 3 Revolutionary Guards killed.
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More riots followed in October 2005. 6250:Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict (1979–present) 6041:Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict (1979–present) 5457:Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (2004–present) 4836:"U.S. brands anti-Iran Kurdish group terrorist" 4635: 2869: 2151:October – 9 civilian casualties from IRGC fire. 2018:2007 West Azerbaijan offensive – 89–101 killed. 582:429–673 fatalities (Uppsala data 2005–09, 2011) 7259:Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus 4995: 4993: 4755: 4560: 1681:In an April 2009 interview with Turkish daily 1527: 1462:county, after a counter insurgency operation. 1210:border guards officials, the area attacked by 743: 6446: 5311: 4446:International Strategic Research Organization 3190: 3054: 3052: 2943:, April 10, 2006, Cihan News Agency/zaman.com 2886:"Iran sends in troops to crush border unrest" 2592: 2590: 2588: 2586: 2584: 2582: 2580: 2578: 2576: 2574: 2572: 2570: 2568: 2566: 2564: 2562: 1536:is traced back to the implementation of its " 1248:exchanged gunfire near the border village of 1155:, launched an offensive against PJAK forces. 1126:against the group in the northeast of Iran's 729: 609: 5435:India–Pakistan border skirmishes (2016–2018) 5430:India–Pakistan border skirmishes (2014–2015) 5384:Insurgency in Northeast India (1964–present) 4692: 4638:"The Dreams and Dilemmas of Iraqi Kurdistan" 3948: 3946: 2796: 2794: 2792: 2790: 2788: 2560: 2558: 2556: 2554: 2552: 2550: 2548: 2546: 2544: 2542: 2263: 1703:has ended this policy. 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(November 20, 2006). 4440: 4438: 4398: 4396: 4169: 4167: 3921:"PJAK says Iran has violated ceasefire" 3906: 3815: 3267: 3014: 2995: 2993: 2953:Tehran faces growing Kurdish opposition 2727: 2673: 2671: 2431:"Iran, Turkey share intel on PKK, PJAK" 2154:October 27 – 3 PJAK killed, 3 captured. 1689:President's Intelligence Advisory Board 516: 14: 7309: 6956:Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes 5817:Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes 5415:Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes 5210:from the original on 23 September 2015 5173: 4962: 4751: 4749: 4747: 4707:from the original on 27 September 2016 4459: 4423:from the original on 27 September 2016 4352:from the original on 23 September 2015 4201: 3846:: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( 3798:"پژاک با 180 کشته و 300 زخمی تسلیم شد" 3580:from the original on November 24, 2015 3182:: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( 2909: 2836:: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( 1542:Government of Islamic Republic of Iran 1481: 937:and more events in October. 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September 2006 Sardasht incident
Kurdish separatism in Iran

Kurdish areas in Iran
West-Azerbaijan
Kurdistan
Kermanshah Provinces
Iran
Kurdistan Region
Iraq
Ağrı Province
Turkey
conflict
Iran
Turkey
United States
Kurdistan Free Life Party
Ali Khamenei
Mohammad-Reza Gharaei Ashtiani
Ahmad Vahidi
Mohammad Bagheri
Abdolrahim Mousavi
Hossein Salami
Ahmad-Reza Radan
Qassem Soleimani

Ali Shamkhani
Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar
Hossein Dehghan
Amir Hatami

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