April 2006 Iran–Iraq cross-border raids

April 2006 Iran-Iraq cross-border raids
	Part of Iran–PJAK conflict
Date	3 April 2006
Location	Iraqi Kurdistan, north-western Iran
Result	Indecisive Arrests of PJAK members; Shelling of PJAK positions in Iraqi Kurdistan; May 2006 Kermanshah bombing;
Belligerents
Iran	Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK)
Casualties and losses
	24 killed (PJAK claim)

April 2006 Iran–Iraq cross-border raids were three military cross-border attacks on Iran-Iraqi Kurdistan border, in which PJAK claimed to had killed 24 members of Iranian security forces in early April, 2006. The raids were motivated as retaliation for the killing of 10 Kurds demonstrating in Maku by Iranian security forces. On April 10, 2006, seven PJAK members were arrested in Iran, on a suspicion that they had killed three Iranian security force personnel.

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