Iranian authorities have arrested 11 members of an outlawed Kurdish group on suspicion of committing acts of sabotage, state television said yesterday.
The arrest of the 11 alleged members of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) – considered a terrorist group in Iran – comes in the wake of mass anti-government protests last month.
Since its formation in 2004, the PJAK – an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) – has staged operations against the Iranian military.
The 11 people arrested in west Iran were “in direct contact with PJAK elements, seeking to launch sabotage actions and to disturb the population’s security”, the Fars news agency said.
“They were identified and arrested before they were able to commit the act,” it added, citing Mohsen Karimi, a regional commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
Both the governments of Turkiye and the United States also consider the PJAK to be a terrorist organisation.
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