25 Feb 2010 – Medya News – Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) denied that any of its members have been arrested as claimed by the Iranian regime’s intelligence chief in the province of West Azerbijan.
The Party stated in a statement that those if arrested have no affiliation with the PDKI.
Iran has also claimed on Wednesday it has foiled a bombing attack on defence ministry factory by an outlawed Kurdish group, accusing arch-foe Washington of backing them.
Earlier this week, Iranian security forces killed four members of Komala in an ambush in West Azerbaijan province. Tehran said they had killed three policemen last December in the province that borders Iraq and Turkey.
Western Iran, which has a sizeable Kurdish population, has seen deadly clashes in recent years between security forces and Kurdish rebels operating from bases in neighbouring Iraq.
Following the overthrow of the Pahlavi monarchy, Iranian Kurds began a peaceful resistance movement in the early 1980s, led by Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (PDKI) and other Kurdish opposition groups. They established local government and administered their affairs.
The new Islamic central government in Tehran unleashed a brutal police and military campaign against the Kurds of Iran and declared holy war against the Kurds following the revolution. As the Islamic Republic’s ethnic cleansing and killing campaign and their holy war against the Kurds of Iran progressed, over 50,000 ethnic Kurds were killed in the first 2 decades and many more were forced from their country.
PDKI emerged as the main force in Iranian Kurdistan to fight the Islamic regime. The PDKI struggles to secure self-rule for the Kurds within a federal Iran and they are headquartered in Koy-Sanjaq in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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