Kurd rebels calls ceasefire with Iran
A Kurdish rebel group said yesterday it has called a ceasefire with Tehran as Iranian state television reported elite Revolutionary Guards have killed 22 rebel fighters in a new offensive.
"We made an initiative to cease fire for a specific time to start negotiations with the Iranian side, so we can solve the problems between us," Sherzad Kamangar, an Iraq-based spokesman for the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), said by telephone.
He did not specify how long the ceasefire would last.
A statement released on PJAK's website on Sunday night said that "if Iran does not agree to the ceasefire, (it) will be responsible for any response" from PJAK fighters, who are based in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region.
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