Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Kill Four in Southeast Operation

  • Armed forces conduct military exercises against armed group
  • Attacks took place amid tension between Iran and Israel

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps march during a military parade in Tehran.

Photographer: Hossein Beris/AFP/Getty Images
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps killed four suspected militants and arrested eight others in an ongoing operation that targeted a so-called terror group in the country’s restive southeast.

IRGC’s ground forces were deployed in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province for a real-life military exercise involving “combat drones and new tactics” the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported on Friday, citing IRGC Spokesman General Ahmad Shafaei.