Abdurrahman Hajji Ahmadi, the ringleader of PJAK - an Iraq-based offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) involved in armed struggle against the Islamic Republic - and two other senior members of the group were arrested at their residences in Germany on Friday, but Hajji Ahmadi was released on Monday.
"Following the capture of the head of the PJAK grouplet by Germany, the Islamic Republic of Iran sent 1000 pages of information and documents substantiating the crimes committed by this individual to the Interpol in a bid to extradite him from Germany," the legislator reiterated.
"Abdurrahman Hajji Ahmadi, the ringleader of PJAK grouplet, has formally accepted the responsibility of the crimes and operations he has committed so the German government shouldn't have released him," member of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mohammad Karami Raad told FNA.
He further expressed regret over the German government's support for the terrorist group and for the crimes committed by Hajji Ahmadi.
The Iranian foreign ministry on Wednesday summoned German Ambassador to Tehran Bernd Erbel to voice Tehran's protest against the release of the captured ringleader of the PJAK terrorist group by Germany.
At the meeting, the Iranian Foreign Ministry's Director-General for Iranian Expatriates' Affairs informed the German envoy of the Islamic Republic of Iran's protest against the measure.
Erbel, for his part, announced that the German government does not support the members of the PJAK terrorist group, and promised to convey Tehran's message to the German government and inform the Iranian Foreign Ministry of the results.
Erbel had also earlier been summoned by the Iranian parliament over the issue.
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