Iranian forces clash with Kurdish separatists: State media

On June 16, Iran's Revolutionary Guard battled armed members of an insurgent Kurdish group in West Azerbaijan province. Both the sides gave conflicting death tolls from the fighting.

By: AP

Tehran | June 25, 2016 07:39 PM IST

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File Photo: This picture taken on June 6, 2016 shows a general view of Tehran, Iran. Iranian intelligence officials have broken up one of the ‘biggest terrorist’ plots ever planned to target Tehran and other provinces in the Islamic Republic, the country’s state media reported on Monday. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi/file)

Iran’s state-run news agency is reporting that security forces have clashed with Kurdish separatist militants who infiltrated a northwestern village to stage ‘terrorist and propagandist operations.’

A report by IRNA on Saturday quotes an unnamed official from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps as saying the clashes happened Friday in the Mahabad County of West Azerbaijan province.

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The report did not mention if there were casualties. The Kurdish group was not immediately reachable.

On June 16, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard battled armed members of an insurgent Kurdish group in West Azerbaijan province.

Both sides gave conflicting death tolls from the fighting.

The Guard said it killed 12 insurgents while three of its members died and the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan said Kurds killed over 12 Guard members, including a colonel.

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