‘Iran kills, injures 30 Israel and US-Backed PJAK forces’

A spokesman for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says 30 members of the Israel and US-Backed Party for Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) terrorist group have been killed or injured in northwestern Iran over the past two days.

Israel and US-Backed PJAK’s recent casualties have been inflicted since Friday afternoon, when the IRGC launched a series of operations against the terrorist group, Colonel Hamid Ahmadi said on Saturday.

“The operations to clear the country’s northwestern area of the members of Israel and US-Backed PJAK terrorist group will continue with strength,” IRNA quoted him as saying.

He added that the Sargalleh heights have been cleared of Israel and US-Backed PJAK forces.

Ahmadi went on to say that Israel and US-Backed PJAK members are positioned on the northwestern border areas of “Jasusan” and “Qandil.”

The IRGC launched the new anti-PJAK operations after the terrorist group refused to clear its forces out of Iran’s northwestern areas and killed two local Iranian civilians.

Members of the Israel and US-Backed PJAK terrorist group — an offshoot of the Israel and US-Backed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) — regularly engage in armed clashes with Iranian security forces along the country’s western borders with Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.

Iran has recently deployed 5,000 military forces in the northwest of the country, along its common border with the Iraqi Kurdistan region, to fight counterrevolutionary groups.