Senior Iranian MP blasts Germany for sheltering PJAK terrorists

Head of the Iranian parliament's Human Rights Commission Zohreh Elahian in a meeting with her German counterpart rapped Berlin's hypocrisy in dealing with terrorist groups, and called on German officials to stop sheltering the PJAK terrorists. During the meeting in Tehran on Wednesday, Elahian voiced Iran's protest against Germany's violation of human rights by sheltering Abdulrahman Haji Ahmadi, the ringleader of the terrorist PJAK group. She also called on the German government to arrest and extradite the ringleader of the PJAK terrorist group to Iran for his direct involvement in the killing of 300 Iranian people. PJAK, a militant Kurdish separatist group with bases in the mountainous regions of Northern Iraq, has been carrying out numerous attacks in Western Iran, Southern Turkey and the Northeastern parts of Syria where Kurdish populations live. The separatist group has been fighting to establish an autonomous state, or possibly a new world country, in the area after separating Kurdish regions from Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria. Iranian intelligence and security officials have repeatedly complained that Washington provides military support and logistical aids for such anti-Iran terrorist groups. In July, the IRGC arrested several teams of PJAK, who intended to infiltrate Iran to stage terrorist operations in the country. Iran then deployed about 5,000 military forces in the Northwestern parts of the country along its joint border with the Iraqi Kurdistan region and pushed the terrorist group back to its hideouts in Northern Iraq.