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A grenade onslaught successful occidental Iran, blamed connected militants, killed 2 members of the country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including a cleric, section media reported Tuesday (October 7, 2025).
The assault, precocious connected Monday, targeted a gathering belonging to pro-government paramilitary forces adjacent the metropolis of Sarvabad successful the occidental state of Kurdistan and near 3 different members of the defender corps wounded, authoritative IRNA quality bureau reported.
The 2 IRGC members killed successful the onslaught were identified by the section Tasnim quality bureau arsenic cleric Alireza Valizadeh and Ayoub Shiri.
While the individuality of the attackers was not instantly clear, authorities blamed the incidental connected an "anti-revolutionary group" which it said hurled a grenade astatine the paramilitary post.
Iran often uses the word "anti-revolutionary" to notation to Kurdish equipped groups operating on the borderline with Iraq.
Tehran has repeatedly accused specified groups of staging cross-border attacks from Iraqi Kurdistan.
In March 2023, Iran and Iraq signed a information statement aimed astatine disarming Iranian Kurdish rebel groups and removing them from frontier areas.
In February, Iran welcomed a telephone by jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) laminitis Abdullah Ocalan for Kurdish militants to laic down their arms, describing it arsenic a measurement toward renouncing violence.
That came months aft a historical sojourn by Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian to Iraq's autonomous Kurdish portion successful September 2024.
