Update: 11 rebels killed in clashes with Iran's IRGC

A group of 11 rebels were killed in fresh clashes with Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), a military commander told Iran's Tasnim news agency on Tuesday.

The IRGC forces identified the 11 "counter-revolutionary" rebels as they attempted to cross into Iran through its border city of Sarvabad in Kurdisan, Brigadier General Mohammad Hossein Rajabi, commander of IRGC in Iran's western Kurdistan province, was quoted as saying.

Once the rebels entered the country they went under the surveillance of the IRGC in Kurdistan, which finally led to a clash and their annihilation, he said.

Three troops from the IRGC were also killed, he said, without specifying the date of the clashes.

The "counter-revolutionaries" in the Kurdish-populated region of Iran have been unsuccessfully working against the Islamic revolution since 1979, according to Press TV.

Recently, the area in western Iran has seen more clashes between armed rebels and the Iranian security forces.

Also on Tuesday, Iranian Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani charged Saudi Arabia of inciting unrests inside Iran and warned about ongoing efforts aimed at casting doubt at Iran's might, Press TV reported.

"The Saudis have had contacts with some disgraced terrorist cells in Iran's east to make some kind of noise," Larijani said, adding that similar contacts have been made by some counter-revolutionaries with terrorist groups in the country's west.

He called for vigilance in the face of such subversive attempts. Endit