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KurdistanObserver.com
Kurdish Guerrillas Threaten To Attack Iran
MOUNT QANDIL, Kurdistan, April 13, 2008 (AFP) - A Kurdish guerrilla group based
in Iraqi Kurdistan threatened on Sunday to launch bomb attacks inside Iran if
Tehran fails to halt anti-Kurdish policies in the Islamic country.
Pejak (Party of Free Life of Kurdistan) warned it has the ability to "carry out
bombings against Iranian forces" inside Iran.
Ronahi Ahmed, a member of Pejak's political bureau, told AFP from the group's
hideout in Qandil mountain that the guerrillas were ready for a long fight with
Tehran.
"We can't stand handcuffed when Iran is chasing us on daily basis. We have the
ability to confront Iran inside Tehran. We are not accepting any threat from
anybody," she said.
"We don't accept the religious suppression that is being carried out by the
Iranians. We totally reject it."
Ahmed said the group had recently attacked Iranian forces across the border.
"Last month our people were able to infiltrate Mahkook town in northwest Iran.
They killed dozens of Iranian soldiers. In another incident in Iran's Miryuwan
town our guerrillas killed six soldiers," she said.
"Iran should be aware that we have a long arm that can strike at significant
places inside Iran, especially in the northwest reaching Tehran."
The Iranian military often shells Iraqi border villages in an attempt to flush
out Kurdish guerrillas, sending residents fleeing from their homes.
"If they (Iran) continue to follow the policy of (Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad, then the
battle will be more severe and the region where we are staying will be hit by a
war," Ahmed said.
Tehran alleges that Washington supports Pejak in its fight against Iran, but
Ahmed denied the allegation.
"We have no relations with the Americans and Iran's claim that we have an
alliance with America is not true. America does not back or fund us. We depend
on supplies from our own people," she said.
Ahmed's statement comes as mystery still surrounds an explosion in a mosque in
Iran's southern city of Shiraz on Saturday that killed 11 people and wounded at
least 191.
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