Iran cracks down on Kurd villages with help from Turkish intelligence
LONDON -- Iran has intensified its crackdown on Kurdish nationalists.Opposition sources said Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been attacking Kurdish villages throughout northeastern Iran near the border with Turkey.
Fighters, including women, in the Iranian wing of the Kurdish Workers Party known as Free Life in Kurdisan, or PJAK. Warzer Jaff for The New York Times
"The terrorists are upset because our intelligence on their network has vastly improved over the last year because of our cooperation with Turkey," an Iranian source said.
The sources said the crackdown has targeted the Iranian wing of the Kurdish Workers Party known as Free Life in Kurdisan, or PJAK.
"The targets include anybody believed associated with PJAK," an opposition source said.
The sources said IRGC, particularly the Basij militia, has been raiding Kurdish villages near the border with Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region. They said Iranian troops have arrested scores of people as well as torched their homes and fields.
"The Iranians have been carrying out a policy of collective punishment," a PKK source in Iraq said. "For every incident, there is massive retaliation."
Iranian officials have acknowledged the crackdown on PJAK. They said IRGC has been battling an increase in insurgency activities along the Iranian border with Iraq as well as the use of Iranian territory for attacks against neighboring Turkey.
In the way they have been treated in this world (including this nation) the Kurds are fast becoming Jews
