NCRI - The Iranian regime has been shelling Iraqi Kurdish villages amid the Persian New Year celebrations. 

The Iranian regime's artillery once again bombarded the border areas of Qaleh-Dizeh and Chowman. The inhuman measures have inflicted heavy financial losses in the area and the bombardment caused panic among local residents. A number of villages along the border have been totally evacuated. 

The Iranian regime's shelling of the area last year inflicted heavy causalities among the deprived Kurdish villagers.

The Iranian Resistance expresses its condolences to the local residents and calls on the Multi-National Force-Iraq, the UN Secretary General and the UN Security Council as well as all international human rights organizations to condemn the criminal border incursions by the ruling clerics into neighboring Iraqi Kurdistan. It also calls for urgent measures to aid the local citizens affected by the mullahs' criminal actions. 

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
March 23, 2008

Photo: Smoke rose from the site of an attack last August 200 miles north of Baghdad. Villagers said Iranian regime had shelled the area.