TEHRAN -- Three terrorists behind the martyrdom of two members of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) have been killed in clashes in the southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan province, an IRGC statement said Friday.
The statement issued by the Quds Base of the IRGC’s Ground Force identified one of the slain elements as Mehrab Shah-Bakhsh, saying he and his two accomplices were actively involved in subversive acts in the country’s southeast.
“Following the martyrdom of two fighters of the Quds Base - Mehran Shourizadeh and Mohsen Kaykhaa’I - by armed thugs and mercenaries of the global arrogance, IRGC forces killed the perpetrators of the crime during a precise operation,” read the statement.
Last Sunday, the Quds Base announced that Shourizadeh and Kaykhaa’i were martyred on the line of duty in the southeastern city of Zahedan, the provincial capital of Sistan and Baluchestan.
Iranian forces frequently engage in clashes with thugs and terrorist outfits or carry out operations against them near the country’s western and eastern borders.
In mid-December, the forces of the Quds Base disbanded a terrorist team in Sistan and Baluchestan.
“A terrorist team that was planning to carry out an act of sabotage and terrorism in the Saravan county was disbanded through the vigilance of the fighters of this base,” the IRGC said at the time, adding that four terrorists were killed in the clash and a large cache of weapons and ammunition was seized.