Another IRGC Soldier Killed In Clashes With Kurdish Group

In clashes between Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Kurdish groups in the west of the country, at least one IRGC member was killed on Friday.

“A clash took place between the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces and one of the Kurdish groups in the villages of Darreh-ye Tafi and Sardush on the western edge of the Zarivar Lake in Marivan, Kordestan province, during which an IRGC agent named Razgar Tabireh was killed,” the IRGC-affiliated Fars News Agency reported Saturday.

The name of the Kurdish group is not mentioned in this report, but some sources say PJAK was the party involved in clashes with the IRGC on Friday evening.

The Kurdistan Free Life Party, or PJAK is a leftist opposition armed militant group. It has waged an intermittent armed struggle since 2004 against the Iranian regime, seeking self-determination through some degree of autonomy for Kurds in Iran.

Hengaw Human Rights Organization, a Kurdish rights group, also reported on Tuesday that a member of the Revolutionary Guards was killed during a clash with PJAK in the Kosalan area of Sarvabad.

After "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests the pressure on Kurdish civil groups and activists has increased significantly.

According to Hengaw, within the past four days, at least 160 citizens from Eslamabad-e Gharb in Kermanshah Province were summoned and interrogated by security agencies.

These measures were taken after two IRGC servicemen were killed in this region.

On Tuesday, France-based Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) said the heights of Kosalan mountain near the city of Sarvabad in Kordestan province were shelled while IRGC forces were deployed to the region in the latest attacks against Iran's Kurdish groups.