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TEHRAN, Sept. 21 -- Iran's newly chosen Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar has vowed to seriously confront terrorist attacks in the country's western province of Kurdistan, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Tuesday. Najjar said that a special committee will be deployed for "investigation into the recent attacks" in Kurdistan, according to the report. Najjar attributed the attacks to foreign elements and said that" the fingerprints of foreign elements could surely be traced behind the terrorist attacks." He vowed that the culprits will be dealt with seriously and "soon be brought to justice." In the past month, some top pro-governmental clerics and judges, including Kurdistan's representative in Iran's Assembly of Experts, the provisional Sunni Friday prayer leader and a judge in Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan province, were targeted by unknown gunmen, apparently Sunni rebels in the region. The Iranian western province has been the hotbed of armed clashes between security forces and Kurdish militant groups, in particular the separatist Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), an anti-Iranian Kurdish group linked to Turkey's outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK). Some Iranian analysts said that PJAK rebels have bases in northeastern Iraq from where they operate against Iran. |
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