TEHRAN - An Islamic Revolution Guards Corps commander has said that IRGC forces have killed about 50 terrorists of the counter-revolutionary group PJAK (the Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan) in northwest Iran over the past few weeks.

In addition, about 100 PJAK terrorists were injured and a number were captured, and the IRGC operations against PJAK will continue until Iraqi forces deal with PJAK, the IRGC commander said on Wednesday.
“IRGC search and destroy operations against PJAK counter-revolutionary elements on the border between Iran and the north of Iraq will continue until the forces of the Iraqi central government and the Iraqi Kurdistan government are deployed on the common border,” he stated.
The Iraqi government should accept responsibility for maintaining security on the border, he added.
The PJAK group was established in 2003. Its camps and bases are mostly located in Iraq, near the border with Iran.
On July 11, a high-ranking Iranian military official criticized Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government for failing to halt the PJAK terrorists’ activities in Iraq and said that Iran reserves the right to attack and destroy PJAK’s terrorist camps and bases inside Iraq. Later, the IRGC launched a major offensive against PJAK.
On Tuesday, Nazem Dabbagh, a representative of Iraq’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in Iran, said that the PUK does not have the military capability to prevent PJAK from taking action against Iran.