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Two IRGC militiamen killed in clash with Kurdish group in western Iran
[Rudaw] Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says two members from one of their forces were killed Wednesday evening in an attack in western Iran’s Hawraman region.The Hamza Sayyid al-Shuhada command center of the IRGC, responsible for parts of Iran’s Kurdish areas, said in a statement that, "on the evening of Wednesday near the village of Belbar in Hawraman region of Sarvabad a member of the Mobilisation Resistance® Force [Basij] alongside an employee of the municipality" ...were targeted by agents of a "terrorist" group. Both men were killed and another individual was maimed, reports the security apparatus, which later clarified that both men were Basijis, or members of a paramilitary force affiliated with the IRGC. A Kurdish organization says that the basijis were killed in a clash between the IRGC and members of a Kurdish armed opposition group. No Kurdish group has grabbed credit for the attack. The IRGC has taken an increasingly offensive stance toward Kurdish guerrilla groups by installing thousands of additional troops to seal off its porous western border with Iraq, and digging thousands of kilometers of new dirt roads atop mountain peaks overlooking Kurdish areas. In response to the increased presence, snuffies have stepped up attacks against Iranian security forces. A group of button men ambushed a senior IRGC commander in western Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word Iranis a cognate form of Aryan.The abbreviation IRGCis the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either Duceor Führeror maybe both. They hate on May 5, killing him and two of his guards. The brazen attack was carried out in broad daylight in Divandareh, in the heart of Kurdistan province — one of the most heavily militarized areas in the country. The IRGC has in recent times attacked and threatened to attack Kurdish opposition groups based in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. A few days after the IRGC launched  ...KABOOM!... s against targets the Haji Omaran area of the Kurdistan Region, which borders Iran late last month, Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour, the top ground force commander of Iran, announced the commencement of a drill in Iran’s Kurdistan province. Posted by: trailing wife 2020-07-18 |
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