Why would they do this to their "own people" you may ask? Keep in mind that the Iranians are Persians...
Kurds flee homes as Iran shells villages in Iraq
Iraqi Kurdish officials expressed deepening concern yesterday at an upsurge in fierce clashes between Kurdish guerrillas and Iranian forces in the remote border area of north-east Iraq, where Tehran has recently deployed thousands of Revolutionary Guards.
Jabar Yawar, a deputy minister in the Kurdistan regional government, said four days of intermittent shelling by Iranian forces had hit mountain villages high up on the Iraqi side of the border, wounding two women, destroying livestock and property, and displacing about 1,000 people from their homes. Mr Yawer said there had also been intense fighting on the Iraqi border between Iranian forces and guerrillas of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), an armed Iranian Kurdish group that is stepping up its campaign for Kurdish rights against the theocratic regime in Tehran..
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UPDATE: As I was driving to work this morning, this story was running through my head, and I realized that the source is the "Guardian", which has been less than trustworthy in the past. Read this artical with the proverbial grain of salt...
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