April 2006 Iran–Iraq cross-border raids
| April 2006 Iran-Iraq cross-border raids | |||||||
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| Part of Iran–PJAK conflict | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Iran |
 Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 24 killed (PJAK claim) | |||||||
April 2006 Iran–Iraq cross-border raids were three military cross-border attacks on Iran-Iraqi Kurdistan border, in which PJAK claimed to had killed 24 members of Iranian security forces in early April, 2006.[1] The raids were motivated as retaliation for the killing of 10 Kurds demonstrating in Maku by Iranian security forces.[1] On April 10, 2006, seven PJAK members were arrested in Iran, on a suspicion that they had killed three Iranian security force personnel.[citation needed]
Aftermath
[edit]PJAK set off a bomb on 8 May 2006 in Kermanshah, wounding five people at a government building.[2]
Since, the US news channel MSNBC claimed that the Iranian military begun bombardments of Kurdish villages in US-occupied Iraq along the Iranian border while claiming that their primary targets were PJAK militants.[citation needed] A number of civilians died.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Tehran faces growing Kurdish opposition, James Brandon, The Washington Times, April 3, 2006
- ^ The militant Kurds of Iran - Jane's Security News Archived October 10, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Trouble on the Iran-Iraq Border - Newsweek: World News - MSNBC.com". Msnbc.msn.com. September 13, 2007. Retrieved 2008-11-10.[dead link]