Thursday, 30 August 2007
ARCHIVES- Iranian Revolutionary Guards seen here in this file photo. The border areas between Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan Region have been shelled by Iran in over 2 weeks in what Tehran describes as a all encompassing assault on PJAK bases in the area.
For more than two weeks now, the Iranian army has been shelling Iraqi Kurdistan Region under the pretext of fighting Kurdistan Freedom Life Party (PJAK) guerrillas based in Kandil and other mountainous border regions between Iran and Iraq. PJAK is known to be a PKK wing in Iranian Kurdistan.
Iran's real motives, however, are more sinister and need to be analyzed within the framework of regional and international political conflicts that have taken place in and around the Middle East.
By attacking relatively peaceful and stable Kurdistan Region, one of Iran's main intentions is thwarting and slowing the Kurdish experiment and consolidation of Kurdish polity that is taking place. Like Turkey, Iran fears that political progress in Iraqi Kurdistan would present itself as a model for its own restive Kurds. full text
Iran's real motives, however, are more sinister and need to be analyzed within the framework of regional and international political conflicts that have taken place in and around the Middle East.
By attacking relatively peaceful and stable Kurdistan Region, one of Iran's main intentions is thwarting and slowing the Kurdish experiment and consolidation of Kurdish polity that is taking place. Like Turkey, Iran fears that political progress in Iraqi Kurdistan would present itself as a model for its own restive Kurds. full text
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