Four IRGC Members Martyred in Terrorist Attack

Date: 19 December 2022 - 21:25

News ID: ۱۱۰۳۶۹

TEHRAN -- Four members of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) were martyred in the country’s southeast and the killers fled to neighboring Pakistan after coming under fire, the official IRNA news agency reported on Monday.
IRNA gave no further details about the incident in the Saravan area of Sistan-Baluchistan province, a region where security forces clash often with terrorists and drug smugglers.
Citing an IRGC statement, IRNA said three of the martyred were members of the Basij, a volunteer force affiliated with the IRGC.
“The perpetrators of attack ... fled to Pakistan after receiving heavy fire,” IRNA reported, citing a statement issued by the IRGC.
The IRGC Ground Force’s Quds Base said in a statement that Second Lieutenant Muhammad Gouradzi and three Basij members, identified as Rahim Bakhshparaki, Hamidreza Abedi and Mahmoud Nikkhaah, were martyred when they engaged in a fierce exchange of fire with counterrevolutionary elements.
A Saudi- and Western-backed terrorist group, Jaish al-Adl, has previously mounted attacks on Iranian security forces in the area. Iranian authorities say the group operates from safe havens in Pakistan.
Last month, a top IRGC commander warned of the enemies’ plots to create chaos in Sistan and Baluchestan province.
Addressing a group of senior Shia and Sunni clerics and elders of Sistan and Baluchestan, Brigadier General Muhammad Pakpour, commander of the IRGC’s

Ground Force, said the enemies would commit every crime and carry out whatever move to disrupt security and create chaos in the province.

He added that unity among Shia and Sunni clerics would restore peace to the province and thwart enemies’ plots to hinder progress and development by spreading insecurity.

“The enemy resorts to every measure at its disposal to create chaos in Sistan and Baluchestan,” the IRGC commander said, urging the province’s clerics, elders and people to remain vigilant.

Back in October, terrorists torched a fire engine, an emergency station, and a bank there, but according to authorities, their attempts to trigger ethnic sedition in the region fell flat thanks to the timely presence of security forces.

The attacks, claimed by Jaish al-Adl terrorist group, left at least 19 people, including police officers, martyred and 20 others injured.