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Heavy Fighting Continues in Sharestan as Military Operation Intensifies
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Heavy fighting continued for a second day in the Sharestan (Şarstên) area on the Mahabad–Piranshahr road, as Iranian security forces maintained their military operation against the Eastern Kurdistan Defense… pic.twitter.com/xlV6GwrqDm
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Heavy Fighting Continues in Sharestan as Military Operation Intensifies
Heavy fighting continued for a second day in the Sharestan (Şarstên) area on the Mahabad–Piranshahr road, as Iranian security forces maintained their military operation against the Eastern Kurdistan Defense Units (YRK), according to local sources.
Reports from the area say the region remains under tight military control, with clashes taking place around Şarstên, Doli Qeleweran, and Mamşal. Local sources claimed that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fired more than 200 Katyusha rockets from positions near the Valizadeh mine toward the Hewareba area while reconnaissance drones were used to direct artillery strikes. They also claimed that one IRGC surveillance drone was shot down by YRK fighters using a long-range rifle.
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IRGC, Kurdish opposition group PJAK clash near Mahabad in western Iran
[Rudaw] The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and units of the Kurdish opposition group Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) clashed near Mahabad in western Iran
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on Sunday, two days after another clash in the area left two members of the Iranian security forces dead and two others maimed.
In a short statement late Sunday, PJAK said the IRGC had launched an operation in the Gagosh area, south of Mahabad in West Azerbaijan province, triggering festivities between PJAK fighters and IRGC forces.
"The IRGC has started an operation in the village of Gagosh in the Mahabad region and, based on our information, the festivities have continued until now," PJAK said, adding that it had no further accurate information about the fighting.
The IRGC has not released any information regarding the reported festivities in Mahabad. The incident marks the second such confrontation within a week between Kurdish opposition groups and Iranian security forces.
The IRGC has been on high alert in Kurdish areas since late February, when the US and Israel carried out an extensive aerial bombing campaign targeting thousands of locations across Iran. IRGC bases in Kurdish areas were heavily bombed, mostly by Israeli warplanes and drones, weakening the force’s grip on the region.
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halted the operation.
The festivities in Mahabad came two days after a checkpoint at the entrance of Baneh city in Kurdistan province was attacked by a unit of a Kurdish opposition group, killing two members of the security forces and wounding two others. No group has grabbed credit for the attack.
Since the beginning of the US-Iran war, the bases of Iranian Kurdish opposition groups in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq have come under hundreds of missile and drone attacks by the IRGC and its affiliated Iraqi militias. Despite a fragile ceasefire, the attacks have continued.
The IRGC maintains that Iraq and the Kurdistan Region must disarm or expel Iranian Kurdish opposition groups from their territory, and has reserved the right to attack them at will.
On Saturday, the body of a member of one of the Iranian Kurdish opposition groups was found stabbed to death in Erbil, prompting the party to accuse Tehran of being behind the killing.
Iran has carried out a series of liquidations in the Kurdistan Region over the past decade, killing several officials and members of opposition groups. The IRGC’s Ramazan Headquarters, responsible for the Kurdistan Region, and Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence carried out an liquidation campaign in the early 1990s that killed nearly 300 members of various Iranian Kurdish opposition groups, mostly in Sulaimani and Erbil provinces.
Gagosh, where the recent festivities have occurred, is a village in the Mangur-e Sharqi rural district of Khalifan in Mahabad county, West Azerbaijan province.
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