\n\tTEHRAN: Attackers shot dead two members of Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards at their home in the western city of Paveh, near the border with Iraq\u2019s Kurdistan region, state media reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\n\tIt was not immediately clear who was behind the shooting but Tehran has frequently blamed Kurdish separatist groups in the area for previous violence, accusing them of links to the United States and Israel.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe two IRGC members were killed in \u201ca terrorist and cowardly act,\u201d state television said, while two other Guards members were wounded.<\/p>\n
\n\tState television said \u201cexact details of this incident and the measures being taken to identify those responsible are under review.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tSepah news, the official media outlet of the Guards, later said the IRGC had dismantled a team working for \u201canti-government and separatist groups\u201d that had entered Iran from the northwestern border.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe report included blurred photos showing four bodies of people allegedly killed in the operation.<\/p>\n
\n\tSeparately, \u201ca family\u2019s vehicle was sprayed with bullets\u201d on Monday in the southeastern town of Saravan in Sistan-Baluchistan province, killing the father and wounding the mother, state television reported.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe woman later died of her injuries.<\/p>\n
\n\tAuthorities did not immediately identify those responsible or provide further details about the victims. But state television said the attack \u201cwas carried out by Zionist-American mercenaries,\u201d a term Iranian officials commonly use for separatist and militant groups.<\/p>\n
\n\tSistan-Baluchistan, which borders Pakistan and Afghanistan, has long seen clashes between security forces, insurgents and drug smugglers.<\/p>\n
\n\tOne of Iran\u2019s poorest provinces, it is home to a sizeable ethnic Baloch population, most of whom are Sunni Muslims in a Shiite-majority nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEHRAN: Attackers shot dead two members of Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards at their home in the western city of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-518069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}