The attack in Iran kills 19 people, including 4 elite members of the Revolutionary Guard


An attack by armed separatists on a police station in a southeastern city killed 19 people, including four members of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported Saturday.

The attackers on Friday hid among the faithful near a mosque in the city of Zahedan and attacked the nearby police station, according to the report.

IRNA sued Hossein Modaresi, the provincial governor, as saying 19 people were killed. The outlet said 32 Guard members, including Basiji’s volunteer forces, were also injured in the clashes.

It was not immediately clear whether the attack was related to the nationwide anti-government protests that gripped Iran following the death in police custody of a young Iranian woman.

Protesters catch fire and block the street during a protest over the death of a woman who was arrested by the moral police in central Tehran, Iran.  (Photo AP)

Protesters catch fire and block the street during a protest over the death of a woman who was arrested by the moral police in central Tehran, Iran. (Photo AP)
(Associated Press)

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The province of Sistan and Baluchestan borders Afghanistan and Pakistan and has seen previous attacks on security forces by ethnic Baluchi separatists, although Saturday’s Tasnim report did not identify a separatist group allegedly involved in the attack. .

On Saturday, IRNA identified the dead as Hamidreza Hashemi, a colonel in the Revolutionary Guard; Mohammad Amin Azarshokr, a member of the Guard; Mohamad Amin Arefi, a Basiji, or IRG volunteer force; and Saeed Borhan Rigi, also Basiji.

Tasnim and other state-related Iranian media outlets reported Friday that the head of the Guard’s intelligence department, Seyyed Ali Mousavi, was shot in the attack and later died.

It is not uncommon for IRG members to be present at police bases across the country.

A police motorcycle burns during a protest over the death of a young woman who was detained for violating the country's conservative dress code in central Tehran, Iran.  (Photo AP)

A police motorcycle burns during a protest over the death of a young woman who was detained for violating the country’s conservative dress code in central Tehran, Iran. (Photo AP)

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Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets in the past two weeks to protest the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who was arrested by the moral police in the capital Tehran for wearing the mandatory Islamic headscarf too loosely.

Protesters vented their anger at the treatment of women and the wider repression in the Islamic Republic. The nationwide demonstrations have rapidly escalated into calls for the overthrow of the clerical establishment that has ruled Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

The protests attracted supporters from various ethnic groups, including Kurdish opposition movements in the northwest operating along the border with neighboring Iraq. Amini was an Iranian Kurd and protests broke out for the first time in Kurdish areas.

Iranian state TV reported that at least 41 protesters and policemen have been killed since the demonstration began on 17 September. A tally of official statements by Associated Press authorities recorded at least 14 deaths, with more than 1,500 protesters arrested.

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Also on Friday, Iran said it had arrested nine foreigners linked to the protests, which authorities accused of hostile foreign entities, without providing evidence.

It was difficult to assess the extent of the protests, particularly outside Tehran. The Iranian media covered the demonstrations only sporadically.

Witnesses said scattered protests took place on Saturday involving dozens of protesters around a university in central Tehran. The riot police dispersed the demonstrators, who shouted “death to the dictator”. Some witnesses said the police fired tear gas.

The people who followed the appeal of the German-Iranian Society in Berlin demonstrate in front of the Iranian embassy against the so-called "moral police" in their home country, in Berlin, Germany, on Friday, September 23, 2022.

People who followed the appeal of the German-Iranian Society in Berlin demonstrate outside the Iranian embassy against the so-called “moral police” in their home country, in Berlin, Germany, on Friday, September 23, 2022.
(Wolfgang Kumm / dpa via AP)

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Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, meanwhile, reminded the Iranian military of their duty to people’s lives and rights, overseas-based opposition Telegram channel Kaleme reported.

Mousavi’s Green Movement challenged Iran’s disputed 2009 presidential elections to a level never seen since the 1979 Islamic Revolution before being crushed by the authorities.

“Obviously your assigned ability is to defend the people, not to suppress the people, to defend the oppressed, not to serve the powerful and the oppressors,” he said.

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