Armed clashes leave four dead
Washington, 14 August (IranVNC)—Iranian government sources announced today that three members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran [KDPI], which is outlawed in Iran, and one Iranian border guard were killed in an armed clash near the northwest borders of Iran.
By: IranVNC
Published: Friday, August 15, 2008
23:10GMT—7:10PM/EST
IRAN – KURDISTAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Washington, 14 August (IranVNC)—Iranian government sources announced today that three members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran [KDPI], which is outlawed in Iran, and one Iranian border guard were killed in an armed clash near the northwest borders of Iran.
The KDPI said that forces from the Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps [IRGC] attacked its members.
The Political-Military Commission of the KDPI on Thursday announced: “At 6 o’clock in the afternoon on Wednesday, 13 August, a group of KDPI guards near the village Gardineh Homeh in Sardasht were ambushed by forces of the IRGC.”
The announcement from the KDPI confirmed that three people from its party were killed in the clashes.
Iran’s official news agency, IRNA, reported that the clash occurred Wednesday night in the mountainous borders of Iran and Iraq.
Tabnak News website, which belongs to Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of the Expediency Council and close to military and security circles in Iran, reported that this armed clash took place between “forces of the IRGC and a group of members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran,” in the area of Ahmad Deh Rav, in the city of Sardasht in East Azarbayjan Province.
The KDPI was established in 1945 in the predominantly-Kurdish town of Mohabad in Kurdistan Province.
This party, which was illegal in Iran from the beginning of its establishment until now, calls for the “self-rule of Kurdistan in a federal Iran.” Armed clashes between forces from this party and Iranian military forces have taken place for the past 12 years.
Source: IRNA in Persian, Tabnak News website, Kurdistan Democratic Party in Iran website
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(Original article written in Persian.)