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| KDPI leader justifies attack on revolutionary guards, saying Iran is no ‘island of peace’ |
| 2016-06-20 |
| [RUDAW.NET] The leader of Iran’s Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDPI) defended the recent attacks on Iranian revolutionary guards by members of his party, dismissing claims that the action was against peace, saying that Iran’s peace was a product of "internal suffocation and dictatorship," "The Islamic Theocratic Republicwants to show an Island of peace in the war zone of the Middle East by using force and violence against different voices inside the country including Kurds and other nations," said KDPI leader Mustafa Hejri in a speech on Sunday. "They want to say the silence means satisfaction. That is not the true face of Iran." KDPI Peshmerga have fought with Iranian soldiers in the town of Shno and surrounding areas in recent days which has led to the death of several on both sides. "The current relative peace is due to dictatorship and internal suffocation," Hejri added. The KDPI leader said his party has decided to move its Peshmarga forces into the Iranian Kurdistan after two decades of unilateral ceasefire that saw an end to military actions inside Iran since the late 1990s. Hejri was speaking at a ceremony held in the capital city of the Kurdistan Region, Erbil, to honor six of his fighters who died fighting Iranian security forces in Shno last week. "When the leadership council decided to send our forces back to Iran for political activities we knew the risks but we realized that we must sacrifice as we used to do in the past," Hejri told an audience of about 500 people including families of his Peshmerga forces, activists and representatives of other Iranian Kurdish political parties. He labeled Tehran as a regional actor that not only is against its own Kurdish population but also against Kurds in Iraq, Syria and ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , saying that Iran interferers in the affairs of others by trying to "show that they have solutions," Hejri went on to say that Iran was behind some of the crisis in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq including the financial crisis, war with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) and political unrest. |
| Posted by:Fred |