Iranian Foreign Ministry has officially refuted reports on trainings the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK) allegedly conducts in Armenia.

“One should not rely on informal sources, whose information is not true to fact,” the Ministry said.

Several days ago, Iranian media circulated information that PJAK members are being trained in Armenia.

The Party of Free Life of Kurdistan is a militant Marxist Kurdish nationalist group with bases in the mountainous regions of northern Iraq, which has been carrying out numerous attacks in western Iran, southern Turkey and the northeastern parts of Syria where the Kurdish populations live. Most experts describe PJAK as an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

In 2009, U.S. listed PJAK as a terrorist organization.