SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Two members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were shot dead by unidentified assailants in Iran’s Zahedan city on Tuesday, semi-official Tasnim news agency said.
A senior member, Colonel Mehdi Molashahi, and Javad Kikha, members of the Iranian elite force were shot dead in a drive-by shooting in the southeastern city of Zahedan.
“Colonel Mehdi Molashahi and Javad Kikha, Guards members in Sistan-Baluchistan province, were shot dead by unknown assailants in the city of Zahedan,” the Tasnim news agency said.
The Iranian authorities were investigating those behind the attack, Tasnim added without specifying further details.
Zahedan is one of the few Sunni-majority cities in predominantly Shiite Iran. The ongoing protests have engulfed this city like the rest of the country, according to videos posted on social media.
Iran stepped into one month of protests which have rocked the country since the death of Kurdish Mahsa Amini on September 16 while in the custody of the morality police in Tehran.
