BEIRUT: Iran´s Revolutionary Guards engaged in heavy clashes
with gunmen on the
border with Iraq on Thursday evening, killing three of them and sustaining one fatality, the Guards said on Friday.
A statement on the Guards´ Sepah News website identified their opponents only as “terrorists”. Clashes
with Iranian Kurdish militant groups based in
Iraq are fairly common in the area. After Thursday´s fighting, four militants were wounded and fled back across the
border into
Iraq and one was captured, the statement said.
As well as the one fatality, a**ther Guard was wounded.
On June 7, Islamic State attacked parliament in Tehran and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini, killing at least 18 people. All of the attackers were
Iranian Kurds. The Revolutionary Guards fired several missiles at Islamic State bases in Syria on June 18 in response to that attack.
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