Grenade attack kills two IRGC members in Iranian Kurdistan

TEHRAN, Iran — A grenade attack in western Iran, blamed on militants, killed two members of the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including a cleric, local media reports.

The assault, late on Monday, targeted a building belonging to pro-government paramilitary forces near the city of Sarvabad in the western province of Kurdistan and left three other members of the guard corps wounded, the official IRNA news agency reports.

The two IRGC members killed in the attack are identified by the local Tasnim news agency as cleric Alireza Valizadeh and Ayoub Shiri.

While the identity of the attackers is not immediately clear, authorities blame the incident on an “anti-revolutionary group,” which it says hurled a grenade at the paramilitary post.

Iran often uses the term “anti-revolutionary” to refer to Kurdish armed groups operating along the border with Iraq.

Tehran has repeatedly accused such groups of staging cross-border attacks from Iraqi Kurdistan.