A Kurdish political get together in Iran mentioned Tuesday that its operatives killed an Iranian intelligence agent allegedly answerable for killing Kurdish activists.
The Democratic Occasion of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) mentioned that Khidir Pirotipenah was killed in a navy operation. Pirotipenah “was answerable for the assassination of a number of Kurdish activists and freedom fighters,” the PDKI said in a tweet.
The PDKI is one in every of a number of Kurdish dissident teams in Iran that seeks higher autonomy for Kurds within the nation. Like different Kurdish events with armed wings, PDKI has a presence within the neighboring Kurdistan Area of Iraq. Iran has attacked the PDKI within the area for years.
The information follows a series of escalations between Iranian Kurdish teams and the Iranian authorities. An Iranian Kurdish politician was found dead in an Erbil resort room in August. In September, human rights teams accused Iranian intelligence of killing a Kurdish activist.
The identical month, Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) mentioned it dismantled an unspecified “terrorist” group within the Kurdistan Province in western Iran. An IRGC commander additionally warned the Kurdistan Regional Authorities in Iraq about internet hosting Kurdish teams from Iran not too long ago.
