Two Iran Revolutionary Guards killed in clash with militants
Thursday 08/August/2019 - 12:27 PM
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.
