2nd Iran Revolutionary Guards Colonel Killed In Clashes: Report
NDTV
The death brings to 20 the number of people killed in an exchange of fire on Friday near a police station in the city of Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced on Saturday that another of its senior officers was killed during clashes in the southeast of the country.
Colonel Hamid Reza Hashemi, an intelligence officer in the Iranian army's ideological arm, "succumbed to injuries he sustained during clashes with the terrorists," a Guards statement said.
The death brings to 20 the number of people killed in an exchange of fire on Friday near a police station in the city of Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province.
The state broadcaster had said Colonel Ali Mousavi, a provincial intelligence officer in the Guards, was among the dead.
