Iranian forces are in full control over the country's borders in the Northwest after they repelled the threat of the PJAK terrorist group completely, Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jaffari said, Fars News Agency reported on Saturday.
"The IRGC's capability in both classic and asymmetric and guerrilla warfare surprised the PJAK terrorist group so much that they surrendered," he added.
"Since the IRGC enjoys asymmetric and guerrilla warfare capability, in addition to its capability in classic wars, the PJAK grouplet was encountered in its own method... and they realized that we have the ability to deploy troops and defeat everyone everywhere."
"Following these battles, they were stationed in areas away from the Islamic Republic of Iran's border, that is where we wanted, and today Kurdistan enjoys a level of security which is even higher than the security of the country's central provinces," the IRGC commander reiterated.
The new round of clashes between the two sides started in July after the IRGC arrested several teams of PJAK, who intended to infiltrate Iran to stage terrorist operations in the country.
In response, Iran deployed about 5,000 military forces in the Northwestern parts of the country along its joint border with the Iraqi Kurdistan region.
During the operations, the IRGC forces killed, injured and arrested tens of terrorists and destroyed their headquarters in the bordering areas of Alvatan near Sardasht city in Northwestern Iran.
But, upon a request by Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), the group was given a one-month grace period during the Muslims' holy fasting month of Ramadan to retreat from the Northwestern borders of the Islamic Republic and stop its terrorist acts in these regions.
But the PJAK terrorist group paid no heed to the KRG's appeals and mediation and martyred two local Kurdish forces.
The IRGC resumed military operations against the Iraq-based PJAK terrorist group after its one-month deadline to the terrorist group ended.
PJAK is an offshoot of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which regularly carries out cross-border raids along Iran's western borders with Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region. It is listed as a terrorist organization by many countries and international bodies.
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. But the U.S. repeatedly refused these accusations saying the U.S. Treasury Department included PJAK into the list of terrorist groups in February 2009 and imposed financial sanctions against it.