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Iran Guards say they struck groups linked to US, Israel in Kurdish area near Iraq
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says its forces had struck groups linked to the United States and Israel in the western Iranian province of Kurdistan, near the border with Iraq.
In a statement carried by the ISNA news agency, the Guards say groups from “northern Iraq and acting on behalf of the US and the Zionist regime were attempting to smuggle a large shipment of American weapons and ammunition” into Iran.
They say the groups were hit in the Iranian city of Baneh in the Kurdistan region.
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