{"id":100861,"date":"2022-01-03T06:59:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T11:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=100861"},"modified":"2022-01-03T06:59:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T11:59:42","slug":"irans-guards-say-9-killed-in-shootout-in-southeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2022\/01\/03\/irans-guards-say-9-killed-in-shootout-in-southeast\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran’s Guards Say 9 Killed in Shootout in Southeast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 TEHRAN \u2014 <\/span>Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they killed six “armed bandits” in a shootout in the country’s southeast that also left three members of a Guards-linked paramilitary force dead.<\/p>\n

The latest clashes in Sistan-Baluchistan broke out around a hideout of militants near a village in the center of the province, the Guards said late Saturday on their Sepah News website.<\/p>\n

Sistan-Baluchistan, bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan, is a flashpoint for clashes with smuggling gangs as well as separatists from the Baluchi minority and extremist militant groups.<\/p>\n

“Six bandits were killed and five others wounded,” the Sepah News report said, while three members of the Basij, a paramilitary force linked to the Guards, also died. No arrests were announced.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the Guards said they had “targeted and killed the perpetrators” behind an attack that left two of their members dead on December 25 in the same province.<\/p>\n

On November 18, three police, including a colonel, were killed and six wounded in fighting with an armed group in an area bordering Sistan-Baluchistan.<\/p>\n

In recent years, the most active rebel group in Sistan-Baluchistan has been the jihadist outfit Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice), which has carried out several high-profile bombings and abductions.<\/p>\n

In February 2019, 27 Guards were killed in a suicide attack on their bus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA \u2014 TEHRAN \u2014 Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they killed six “armed bandits” in a shootout in the country’s southeast that also left three members of a Guards-linked paramilitary force dead. The latest clashes in Sistan-Baluchistan broke out around a hideout of militants near a village in the center of the province, the Guards said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latests"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100864,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100861\/revisions\/100864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}