The Revolutionary Guards announced the destruction of a "terrorist team" in Kurdistan.
The IRGC's public relations headquarters in the western and northwestern regions of Iran said in a statement released on the morning of July 2nd that it had "destroyed a terrorist team in Kurdistan."
The public relations department of the Hamzah Seyyed al-Shuhada base said in a short statement that “a terrorist team that intended to carry out terrorist acts and create insecurity inside the country was identified this morning (Friday) by the fighters” of the base. According to the Revolutionary Guard, three of them were killed and another was arrested after a clash with this group.
The statement continued by saying that this "team" was affiliated with "global arrogance" and that "a number" of weapons and ammunition were also discovered from them.
No details have been released about the exact location of the conflict, the number of casualties, or the person arrested, and it is unclear how many weapons and ammunition and what type fell into the hands of the Revolutionary Guards. The word “global arrogance” is a term that the Leader of the Islamic Republic and officials close to him use to refer to the United States and a number of other countries.
The Hamzeh Seyyed al-Shohada headquarters operates in the provinces of West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, and Kermanshah, and, as the Revolutionary Guards say, was established "with the aim of coordinating internal defense activities against counter-revolutionary and infiltrating forces in the west and northwest of the country."
The statement from the Revolutionary Guards on Friday morning is the latest in a series of deadly attacks in Tehran and the aftermath. The so-called Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the Tehran attacks. The statement released by the IRGC headquarters made no mention of any possible connection between the individuals and the so-called Islamic State group or the Tehran attacks.
A week ago, the Iranian state-run news agency, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, published a report on its Telegram channel about clashes on Iran’s western borders, writing, “The ISIS team entered the country from the Sumar border on Friday evening, but the group was destroyed and four of them were arrested after security forces bombed it.” Shortly after, two Iranian officials denied reports of clashes with the group on Iran’s western borders, including in Gilan-e Gharb and Sar-e Pul-e Zahab.
Four days earlier, the representative of Urmia in the Islamic Consultative Assembly had announced the "identification" and "arrest of 40 members" of the "Islamic State" group in West Azerbaijan province. On June 21, the Fars provincial judiciary announced that prison sentences had been issued for "six ISIS operatives," and on June 17, the IRGC Ground Forces announced the "grounding" of a "terrorist team" in Qasr-e-Qand, Sistan and Baluchestan.
The Revolutionary Guard Corps announced on June 19 that it had fired six missiles at Islamic State group positions in the Syrian province of Deir Ezzor.
Source: Radio Farda
