35 illegal Iraqi Kurdish immigrants                               

Sanandaj, Kurdistan Prov, Aug 9, IRNA -- Iranian security forces have arrested and sent
home 35 Iraqi Kurds illegally staying in the western city of Marivan, along the border with
Iraq, a local source said Thursday.                                                        

"The illegal immigrants, all coming from northern Iraqi Kurdistan, were identified and
arrested in a region known as the Hizbullah crossroads," the security source, speaking on
customary condition of anonymity, told IRNA.                                                 
    
"The detainees said they had tried to jump over into the Iranian border as they were sick of
the political and economic situation in their country," he said, adding that they were
repatriated after undergoing the legal process.                                         
    
Iran's Democratic Kurdistan Party was officially banned following the 1979 Islamic
Revolution which toppled the Shah and installed an Islamic government. The party's leader
was assassinated in Vienna in 1989. Different Kurdish factions rebelled against the Islamic
Republic after the revolution.