IRGC Kills Terrorists, Loses Three Members
TEHRAN (Dispatches) – Foreign-backed terrorists on Tuesday martyred three members of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in a shootout in a Kurdish area, Iranian news agencies said on Wednesday.
Tasnim news agency identified one of the martyrs as Col. Shakiba Salimi and two others, Jafar Nezampour and Muhammad Shokri, whose ranks were not given.
It said the three IRGC members also killed "several counterrevolutionaries” in the fighting near the Kurdish town of Divandarreh.
A statement by the IRGC’s Hamzeh Seyyed al-Shohada Base in northwest Iran hailed Col. Salimi for dedicating his life to promoting security in Kordestan and recently making great sacrifices in fighting the new coronavirus in the country.
The area has seen occasional fighting between Iranian forces and PJAK terrorists as well as militants linked to Daesh. In July, PJAK terrorists martyred three members of the IRGC in the country’s northwest.
Tasnim news agency identified one of the martyrs as Col. Shakiba Salimi and two others, Jafar Nezampour and Muhammad Shokri, whose ranks were not given.
It said the three IRGC members also killed "several counterrevolutionaries” in the fighting near the Kurdish town of Divandarreh.
A statement by the IRGC’s Hamzeh Seyyed al-Shohada Base in northwest Iran hailed Col. Salimi for dedicating his life to promoting security in Kordestan and recently making great sacrifices in fighting the new coronavirus in the country.
The area has seen occasional fighting between Iranian forces and PJAK terrorists as well as militants linked to Daesh. In July, PJAK terrorists martyred three members of the IRGC in the country’s northwest.
The IRGC responded with a multi-pronged offensive involving missile, drone and artillery units, pounding terrorist positions along the Iranian border with Iraq’s Kurdistan region.
In 2018, the IRGC hit PJAK headquarters in northern Iraq with precision-guided missiles, killing a number of the terrorist group’s top commanders.