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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7596823" data-attributes="member: 92282">Iran troops twice cross border to fight rebels:  Iraq KurdsIranian troops have crossed  into Iraq twice in three days amid clashes with Kurdish rebels in the  Qandil mountains near the border, a security spokesman said Saturday.The  incursions, which both occurred after Iran's ambassador to Baghdad was  summoned to the foreign ministry over the issue, came during a series of  clashes in recent days with the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK)."Iranian  forces, two days ago (Thursday), entered... Iraqi territory in the Haji  Omran area" in Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region, a spokesman for the  region's peshmerga former rebel security force told AFP."The  Iranian soldiers numbered more than 30, and were combined with armoured  vehicles and heavy weaponry," Major General Jabbar Yawar said.Yawar  said the Iranian troops penetrated two kilometres (just over a mile)  into Iraqi territory, two days after they crossed three kilometres (two  miles) over the border in similar clashes with the PJAK.In recent  weeks, Iran has repeatedly shelled suspected PJAK rear-bases in the  border area. It has also carried out helicopter assaults across the  frontier.In a statement on May 31, the foreign ministry said it had separately  summoned the ambassadors of Iran and Turkey over cross-border attacks  by Tehran and Ankara against Kurdish rebel movements."The  ministry expressed its strong concern over the two states' actions in  the form of bombardment and air strikes along the border," the statement  said.It added: "The ministry called on both countries to cease  these violations in future because they have a negative impact on the  friendly relations between our countries."Turkey on May 20  conducted its own bombardment of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) bases in  northern Iraq.A May 31 rocket strike on a naval base killed six  Turkish soldiers. A news agency close to the PKK said it had been  claimed by the rebel group.The PJAK is closely allied with the  PKK which has been fighting for self-rule in eastern Turkey since 1984  and is blacklisted as a terrorist group by the European Union and the  United States.Last month, Iranian troops clashed with Iraqi  border guards after mistaking them for rebel fighters. An Iraqi guard  officer was captured but later released.  AFP</blockquote>

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