IRGC Pounds Terrorist Positions With Artillery Fire
TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- Iranian forces launched an artillery barrage on terrorists in a northwestern border area on Saturday, a day after three Iranian border guards were martyred in the remote region where the borders of Iran, Iraq and Turkey meet, Iranian news agencies reported Sunday.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said its ground forces targeted positions of "counter-revolutionary terrorist groups on the other side of the northwestern borders of our country”, inflicting heavy losses and casualties, IRNA reported.
"As it has repeatedly been declared, maintaining national security, peace and comfort of the Iranian nation, especially the people living in border provinces, is the red line of the country’s armed forces, especially the IRGC’s ground forces,” an IRGC statement said, warning that terrorists will be punished for their shameful and criminal acts.
On Friday, three Iranian border guards were martyred and two others wounded in clashes with armed counter-revolutionary elements in the Targavar district of West Azarbaijan province.
Iranian forces managed to repel the terrorists who tried to sneak into the province.
Iranian border guards have on many occasions engaged terrorists attempting to cross the frontier and carry out attacks.
Such confrontations are not rare in West Azarbaijan province, which borders Iraq and Turkey. The area has seen occasional fighting between Iranian forces and PJAK terrorists as well as militants linked to the Daesh group.
In July, Iran said terrorists had martyred two people and wounded a third person in an attack in Iran’s province of Kurdistan, to the south of West Azarbaijan. In June, Iran attacked bases of PJAK terrorists in northern Iraq.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said its ground forces targeted positions of "counter-revolutionary terrorist groups on the other side of the northwestern borders of our country”, inflicting heavy losses and casualties, IRNA reported.
"As it has repeatedly been declared, maintaining national security, peace and comfort of the Iranian nation, especially the people living in border provinces, is the red line of the country’s armed forces, especially the IRGC’s ground forces,” an IRGC statement said, warning that terrorists will be punished for their shameful and criminal acts.
On Friday, three Iranian border guards were martyred and two others wounded in clashes with armed counter-revolutionary elements in the Targavar district of West Azarbaijan province.
Iranian forces managed to repel the terrorists who tried to sneak into the province.
Iranian border guards have on many occasions engaged terrorists attempting to cross the frontier and carry out attacks.
Such confrontations are not rare in West Azarbaijan province, which borders Iraq and Turkey. The area has seen occasional fighting between Iranian forces and PJAK terrorists as well as militants linked to the Daesh group.
In July, Iran said terrorists had martyred two people and wounded a third person in an attack in Iran’s province of Kurdistan, to the south of West Azarbaijan. In June, Iran attacked bases of PJAK terrorists in northern Iraq.