Kurdish rebels based in north Iraq claimed on Monday to have killed seven Iranian soldiers in clashes last week near the Islamic republic's border with Iraqi Kurdistan.
The Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) said two of its fighters had died in the August 22 clashes near the Sardasht border area, populated by Iran's Kurdish minority, apparently the first such deadly violence between the two sides since April 2012.
"Iranian forces ... attacked and swept the area near Sardasht," the PJAK said in a statement.
"Severe fighting erupted between the two forces ... which led to the killing of seven Iranian soldiers," it said, adding that two PJAK fighters also died.
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