TEHRAN, May 27, YJC - Two Iranian border guards have been killed in clashes with terrorists in the country’s northwest, a news agency has reported.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - The
scuffles erupted on Saturday between Urmia border regiment forces and
PJAK, an offshoot of Turkey's Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Tasnim
news agency said.
PJAK randomly carries out hit-and-run attacks on Iranian targets, after which they retreat to their lairs in Iraq and Turkey.
Earlier
this month, Iran said it welcomed Turkey's plan to build a
144-kilometer wall along its border. Ankara says the wall is aimed at
halting the movement of PKK militants who are based in Iraq’s Qandil
mountains bordering Iran and Turkey.
"We welcome any move that
increases the security and stability of the border," Iran's Foreign
Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said.
The border wall is
reportedly being constructed with three-meter concrete blocks topped off
with razor wire, according to Turkish authorities.
Beside
terrorists, smugglers also use the border to bring in bootleg goods such
as alcohol into Iran from Turkey and northern Iraq.
Last month,
10 Iranian border guards were killed and two others wounded in an ambush
attack near the town of Mirjaveh in the southeastern Iranian province
of Sistan-and-Baluchestan.
The so-called Jaish ul-Adl terrorist
group claimed responsibility for the attack. The assailants escaped into
Pakistani territory immediately after the attack.