SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Iranian forces launched an artillery barrage on armed rebels in a northwestern border area, a day after three Iranian border guards were killed in the remote region where the borders of Iran, Iraq and Turkey meet, Iranian state media reported.
The Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday that its ground forces targeted positions of “counter-revolutionary terrorist groups on the other side of the northwestern borders of our country”, inflicting heavy losses and casualties, according to Iran’s state news agency IRNA.
Clashes with Iranian Kurdish groups are common in the area and Iran occasionally shells in the Kurdistan Region, where it says rebel fighters take shelter.
