Iranian forces continue to shell "Kurdish rebels" in northern Iraq

Baghdad - Iranian artillery continued to shell villages in northern Iraq where Iranian Kurdish rebels are believed to be operating, while inhabitants fled from eight villages in order to escape the attacks, media reports said Saturday.

Already on Thursday morning Iranian artillery had shelled seven villages in the area of Qalit Diza in Sulaymanyah province in Iraq's Kurdish Autonomous Region, Hasan Abdallah, the head of Qalit Diza council, told the Voices of Iraq news (VOI) news agency.

The shelling continued until Saturday but caused no casualties. However, inhabitants of eight villages fled for their lives, VOI said.

The Iranian army frequently shells villages in the mountains of Sulaymanyah where it says rebels from the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) are based.

The PJAK is part of an alliance of Kurdish rebel groups, including the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The rebel alliance is engaged in a paramilitary campaign to win autonomy and rights for the Kurdish minorities in Iran and Turkey.

Kurdish rebel groups are believed to be operating from northern Iraq where Iraq's Kurds established an autonomous government, which is part of a federal Iraq.
M&C

With all the outrage we see in the blogs over airstrikes, how come there is never a word about the continued shelling from Iran. Is it that bomb are only bad when they are US bombs that hit Bathist? Kurds I guess are like dogs and no one cares if they are bombed