Fighting breaks out in Iranian Kurdistan

[6]The military wing of the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK [7]) issued a statement saying that armed clashes broke out between its forces and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Marivan region of Iran's Kordistan province. The East Kurdistan Defense Units (YRK [8]) wrote that the IRGC initiated artillery and mortar attacks against their positions. The statement came as PJAK Presidential Council member Siyamend Moini was in Brussels to deliver a speech before a conference at the European Parliament entitled "Weaving a Democratic Iran Together [9]." In his comments, Moini called for international support for the "reconstruction of a free, democratic, and secular Iran that consistently defends women's rights, the rights of peoples and minorities, and environmental protection." (Image: Middle East Forum [10] via Wikimedia Commons [11])

The military wing of the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK [7]) issued a statement saying that armed clashes broke out between its forces and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Marivan region of Iran's Kordistan province. The East Kurdistan Defense Units (YRK [8]) wrote that the IRGC initiated artillery and mortar attacks against their positions starting on June 8. (IranWire [12])

The statement came as PJAK Presidential Council member Siyamend Moini was in Brussels to deliver a speech before a conference at the European Parliament entitled "Weaving a Democratic Iran Together [9]." In his comments, Moini called for international support for the "reconstruction of a free, democratic, and secular Iran that consistently defends women's rights, the rights of peoples and minorities, and environmental protection." (ANF [13])