Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards used drones and missiles
to strike headquarters of a Kurdish group near Iran’s border with neighboring
Iraq’s Kurdistan region, the Iranian semi-official Tasnim news agency 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 groups based in neighboring Iraq, such as
the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), accused by Tehran of having links
to Kurdish PKK insurgents in Turkey.
