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1st LD: Iran's IRGC says kills 9 "terrorists"

Xinhua, June 16, 2016 Adjust font size:

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) killed nine terrorists in the country's northwestern city of Oshnavieh, semi-official Fars new agency reported on Thursday.

Two local members of the IRGC also died in the clashes with "counter-revolutionary terrorist groups" on Wednesday, the report said.

Members of outlawed groups, including the Kurdish Democrat Party, recently crossed the northwestern borders into the country, the report said, quoting an IRGC statement. Endit