Four IRGC Members Killed and Wounded in Clashes in Saravan

The Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced that two of its personnel were killed in the Saravan border area near the Pakistan border during a clash. Two other IRGC members were also wounded.

The IRGC Ground Force announced on Sunday, July 30 (July 21) in a statement that two of its personnel were killed in the Saravan city district near the Pakistan border “in a clash with a terrorist group.”

According to IRNA report, the statement said the clash occurred last night at the Saravan border, and a commando guardian named Mohsen Naghibi from Kermanshah and a local Basij member named Abdulkhalegh Darazehi lost their lives. Additionally, two guardians named Mohammad Savory and Shamsaldin Budagh were wounded.

The Quds Force headquarters in its statement did not identify what it called the “terrorist group.”

Saravan city is located 335 kilometers southeast of Zahedan, the capital of Sistan and Baluchestan province, and in the vicinity of Pakistan.

Iran’s ambassador to Pakistan told reporters about this terrorist incident: “Iran and Pakistan have good relations, but unfortunately some third parties who are dissatisfied with this goodwill and bilateral cooperation between Iran and Pakistan are trying to sabotage these relations through certain subversive acts.”

Iran’s border areas near Pakistan have for years been the scene of clashes between Iran’s military and security forces and semi-military groups, most of which are Baluch militias. “Jundallah” is the most important Baluch semi-military group operating in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan. Abdolmalek Rigi was the most well-known leader of this group, who was arrested in 2009 and executed a few months later.