Tehran, April 07: A special committee of Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission is to investigate the recent terrorist attacks Iran’s Kordestan province, an Iranian lawmaker says.
“The committee will review and discuss these incidents with the presence of police officials as well as officials from the Interior and Intelligence Ministries next Sunday,” Head of the special committee, Parviz Sarvari, said on Wednesday.
“Presently Mohammad Karamirad, the Kermanshah representative in Majlis, has been sent to the area to probe the terrorist attacks in Marivan and Sanandaj,” IRNA quoted Sarvari as saying.
On March 24, gunmen killed two Iranian police officers and injured three others in two different terrorist attacks in the city of Sanandaj in Kordestan province.
In another attack on April 1, a group of armed militants reportedly opened fire on a border police station in a village near the city of Marivan in Kordestan Province
At least four border guards were killed in the attack and three others were wounded.
Iranian authorities have blamed the PJAK terrorist group for the terrorist attacks.
PJAK is an offshoot of the internationally-recognized terrorist group PKK — the Kurdistan Workers’ Party. PJAK conducts deadly operations in western Iran, northern Iraq and southern Turkey.
——–Agencies