Iranian army shells Iraqi border villages

The Iranian military yesterday subjected three Iraqi border villages to an early-morning barrage of shelling, causing no injuries or damage but scaring residents, an Iraqi official said.
The shells were apparently aimed at bases of militant Kurdish rebel group Pejak, said the mayor of Zarawah, a frontier town in northeastern Iraq.
Pejak (Party of Free Life of Kurdistan) is accused by Tehran of launching deadly attacks on security forces in northwestern Iran.
"At 6.00 am today, Iranian troops fired artillery shells at border villages inside Iraq," the mayor, Azad Wassu, told AFP by telephone.
“They used long range artillery for 30 minutes. Shells fell on three border villages. There were no casualties nor damage but residents were terrified," added Wassu, under whose jurisdiction the villages fall.