Two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members were shot dead in Paveh, a city in Iran’s Kurdish-majority Kermanshah province roughly 25 miles from the Iraqi Kurdistan border, on the evening of June 29. Two more Guards personnel were wounded in the same attack.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards released images of two of its members killed in an armed attack in the western city of Paveh on Monday evening, identifying them as Borhan Krisani and Khaled Khaledinia:
The IRGC’s Kermanshah provincial branch said the two men were attacked outside… pic.twitter.com/UlSdwzogud
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The IRGC’s Kermanshah provincial public relations office identified the dead as Khaled Khaledinia and Borhan Krisani. The Kurdish human rights group Hengaw identified the wounded as Kamel Shabrang, also known as Kamel Hajiji, and Kamal Abdi, and reported that Hajiji was in a coma.
Families of two IRGC members killed in an armed attack in Paveh, a city in Iran’s western Kermanshah province, gathered at a hospital to mourn their deaths, a video sent to Iran International showed. The IRGC’s public relations office in Kermanshah said IRGC members Borhan… pic.twitter.com/5pR8DNLXeq
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Paveh governor Farzad Almasi told the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) that all four targets were local IRGC personnel, contradicting a hardline Raja News report that a woman and child were also killed. That claim has not been independently verified.
A newly formed group calling itself Khori Hiva, meaning “Sun of Hope” in Kurdish, claimed the attack. The group said Khaledinia had participated in suppressing protesters in Javanrud during the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising. Almasi confirmed that two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire before fleeing the scene.
The Paveh attack was not isolated. The following day, IRGC forces from the Hamzeh Seyed al-Shohada base killed six armed fighters in the mountains between Mahabad and Piranshahr, also in Iran’s northwest.
The IRGC said the cell had crossed from the border intending to carry out “sabotage and terrorist operations.”
Rudaw reported that the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) said four of its members died in that engagement, a figure that conflicts with the IRGC’s account. Neither claim has been independently verified.
