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Wednesday 23 August 2017 - 09:18
Story Code : 273343

No joint anti-PKK operation with Turkey on agenda: IRGC



Press TV - Irans Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has dismissed reports about plans for a joint operation with Turkey against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants outside the Iranian borders.

We have not devised any operationplan outside the borders of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the IRGC Ground Force's Hamzeh Seyed al-Shohada base said in a statement on Tuesday.
But like in the past, we will stronglycounter any group, team or individual seeking to infiltrate into the Iranian territory to carry out terrorist or anti-security measures, it added.
It said some terrorist groups based in camps in northern Iraq have been seeking to cause insecurity in Iran in recent years withthe logistical support of the enemies of the Islamic Republic; however, they have repeatedly failed to conduct any move and sustained heavy damage.
The IRGC base vowed a crushing and harsh response to these groups intending to carry out the slightest move to create insecurity in Irans border areas.
Turkeys President Erdogan said on Monday that a joint Turkish-Iranian operation against Kurdish militants was "always on the agenda."

It is always on the agenda to carry out a joint operation with Iran against those terror organizations which pose a threat," Erdogan told reporters in Istanbul before a visit to Jordan.

Turkey has been fighting against the outlawed PKK militants for decades.

Iran is also fighting PJAK, a PKK offshoot, in its northwestern border region with Turkey. Iranian forces killed five PJAK terrorists in an ambush there last June.

PJAK randomly carries out hit-and-run attacks on Iranian targets, after which they retreat to their lairs in Iraq and Turkey.

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