DUBAI: Two members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have been killed in clashes with militants in a northwestern region near the border with Turkey, Iranian state television reported on Wednesday.
“The governor of Maku said two Guards were martyred in a clash with terrorists while defending the fatherland,” the television reported.
It gave no further details. There are frequent clashes in western Iran between the Islamic Republic’s security forces and Iranian Kurdish militant groups mostly based in neighboring Iraq, including the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), accused by Tehran of links to Kurdish PKK insurgents in Turkey.
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Two Iran Revolutionary Guards killed in clash with militants
Two Iran Revolutionary Guards killed in clash with militants
- “The governor of Maku said two Guards were martyred in a clash with terrorists while defending the fatherland,” Iranian media reported
- No further details were given about the clash
Iran’s UN envoy says 1,332 Iranian civilians killed in war
- He made his comments while speaking to reporters at the United Nations in New York
UNITED NATIONS, The United Stations: Iran’s UN ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani on Friday said at least 1,332 Iranian civilians had lost their lives so far in the conflict with Israel and the United States and thousands more had been injured.
He made his comments while speaking to reporters at the United Nations in New York.
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