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Summary Kurdish rebels killed a member of Iran's Basij militia in the western province of Kurdistan.
Kurdish rebels have killed a member of Irans Basij militia after attacking a rural base in the western province of Kurdistan.According to reports, rebels of the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) targeted the Basij base of Selin, near the town of Sarv-Abad.The terrorists attacked the base and killed one Basij member and injuring four others. The PJAK rebels also suffered heavy losses in the attack.The source said the rebels had killed another Basij member as well as a police officer in the town over the past two weeks.At least eight Guards have been killed, including a senior officer, in clashes on the border with Iraq, where PJAK rebels operate out of bases in its autonomous Kurdish region.Meanwhile, a 10-year-old Iraqi Kurd was killed by Iranian forces, who regularly shell border districts of the Kurdish region of northern Iraq targeting PJAK bases.The Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari called for Iran to stop shelling positions of Kurdish rebels inside Iraq, warning it was damaging ties between Baghdad and Tehran.But Iranian media reported that Tehran would keep up its operations until Iraq deployed security forces along the border to prevent cross-border attacks by PJAK rebels.
