Iran takes "full control" of three camps of PJAK, group tied to terorist PKK

Iran has taken "full control" of three camps inside neighboring Iraq of the outlawed Iranian-Kurdish Party for Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK) movement, a group tied to the terrorist PKK, a commander for the elite Revolutionary Guards told Iran's official news agency IRNA yesterday. "All the three camps on Iraqi soil that were backing the terrorist group have fallen under our control," said Col. Delavar Ranjbarzadeh, who commands Revolutionary Guard soldiers in the northwestern Iran border town of Sardasht. Operations launched on Saturday inside Iraq were still continuing in other areas, but he gave no further details. Ranjbarzadeh added that a member of the Revolutionary Guard was killed in the fighting with three others wounded and that "many anti-revolutionary and PJAK terrorist members were [also] killed." IRNA also quoted an unnamed source in Sardasht as saying that five PJAK members were killed in the clashes. "Among those killed was the deputy head of the Marvan camp," Ranjbarzadeh said, calling it PJAK's main camp, where 30 members of the group have been living for the past four years. PJAK ally the PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the US and the EU.