Seven terrorists arrested in Iran
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Seven Kurdish terrorists have been arrested by Iranian police, according to Iranian media. The terrosists, who were operating close to Iran's border with Turkey are thought to be members of the terrorist group Pejak, which has strong links to the Kurdish terrorit group, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). "We have arrested seven members of the illegal Pejak group who had pivotal role in urban unrest," West Azerbaijan province police chief, Hasan Karami, told the Khorasan daily.
He said that during the Iranian New Year holidays in late March, Pejak members killed a policeman and two members of the Basij volunteer militia.
Iran says Pejak is linked to the terrorist group PKK, which has waged a 15-year insurgency against Ankara for self rule in the Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast.
Reports have said at least 120 Iranian police were killed, and scores injured in major insurgent attacks by Kurds last year, notably by Pejak.
Tehran and Ankara are linked by an accord calling on Iran to fight the PKK and for Turkey to fight the People's Mujahedeen, an outlawed armed Iranian opposition group based in Iraq.
Iran has pointed the finger at international forces in Iraq for the recent unrest in Kurdish and Arab communities in its southwestern provinces that border Iraq.