Two Iran Revolutionary Guards killed in clash with militants
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
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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.
