April 2006 Iran–Iraq cross-border raids

April 2006 Iran-Iraq cross-border raids
Part of Iran–PJAK conflict
Date3 April 2006
LocationIraqi Kurdistan, north-western Iran
Result

Indecisive

  • Arrests of PJAK members
  • Shelling of PJAK positions in Iraqi Kurdistan
  • May 2006 Kermanshah bombing
Belligerents
Iran Iran Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of 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.

Aftermath

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. A number of civilians died.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Tehran faces growing Kurdish opposition, James Brandon, The Washington Times, April 3, 2006
  2. ↑ The militant Kurds of Iran - Jane's Security News Archived October 10, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ "Trouble on the Iran-Iraq Border - Newsweek: World News - MSNBC.com". Msnbc.msn.com. September 13, 2007. Retrieved 2008-11-10.
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