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Iran: Five Guardians dead in violence in the Southeast

2022-10-02T09:43:01.061Z


Five members of the Revolutionary Guards, Iran's ideological army, were killed in violence on Friday in the south-east of the country,...


Five members of the Revolutionary Guards, Iran's ideological army, were killed in violence on Friday in the south-east of the country, according to a new report announced Sunday, October 2 by local media.

The Iranian media had so far reported about twenty dead including four members of the security forces, including the provincial head of intelligence of the Guardians, in the province of Sistan-Baluchistan, bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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The Revolutionary Guards spoke of clashes with “

terrorists

”.

It was not immediately clear whether the clashes were linked to protests that have been taking place across Iran since the September 16 death of a young Iranian Kurd, Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by vice police.

"

With the death on Saturday evening of one of the members of the paramilitary forces, the number of martyrs of the Guardians in the Zahedan terrorist incident which occurred on Friday rises to five

," the official Irna agency said, quoting a statement from the Guardians. .

According to Irna, 32 members of the ideological army were also injured.

"Sniper"

The provincial police chief had indicated on Friday on official television that three police stations in the region had been attacked, without giving an assessment.

According to the Tasnim news agency, the Sunni rebel group Jaish al-Adl claimed responsibility for the attack on a police station in the provincial capital Zahedan.

In recent years, this jihadist group has been the most active rebel movement in Sistan-Baluchistan, a poor region and frequent scene of attacks or clashes between law enforcement and armed groups.

Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday that two "

prominent

" members of Jaish al-Adl, Abdolmajid Rigi and Yasser Shahbakhsh, as well as the "

sniper responsible for the assassination of the provincial head of Guardian Intelligence

", were killed. , without further details.

This week, an influential Sunni minority leader in the province, the cleric Molavi Abdol Hamid, warned of tensions in the region, saying it was "

fiery and worried

" after a "

recent case of the rape of a teenage girl by a policeman

.

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The repression of the demonstrations which have shaken Iran since September 16, three days after the arrest of Mahsa Amini for violating the strict dress code of the Islamic Republic which in particular obliges women to wear the veil, has caused the death of several dozen of protesters.

Members of the security forces also died.

More than a thousand people were also arrested across the country.

Source: lefigaro

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