Iran strikes opposition positions in Iraqi Kurdistan
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have attacked positions of the
Iranian armed opposition in the Kurdistan region of Iraq with drones and
missiles, the Iranian semi-official news agency Tasnim reported on Friday.
"A large number of terrorists were killed and wounded
in the attacks that had started from Wednesday," said the agency, citing a
statement from the elite Guards.
A report from Tasnim in Arabic and a tweet in English from
Iran's Press TV described the strikes as taking place on the Iraqi side of the
border. However, the statement in Farsi said only that the strikes had taken
place along the border.
The statement said the strikes were launched in retaliation
to separate attacks by the group that killed at least five members of the
Guards in western Iran.
There are frequent clashes in the area between Iranian
security forces and Iranian Kurdish militant groups based in neighbouring Iraq,
such as the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), accused by Tehran of having
links to Kurdish PKK insurgents in Turkey.
