2nd LD: Iran's lawmaker survives assassination attempt

The Iranian senior lawmaker, Heshmatollah Falahat Pisheh, survived an assassination attempt on Sunday, state IRIB TV reported.

Four armed men opened fire at the convoy of the parliament member and his entourage after blocking their path near Rijab, a village bordering Iraq in Dalahu county in western Kermanshah province, but he narrowly escaped the assassination attempt, the report said.

In the incident, Falahat Pisheh, the governor of Dalahu county Faramarz Akbari, and the province's head of Fisheries Organization Farzad Afzali suffered serious injuries, deputy governor of Kermanshah province Yusuf Shah Hosseini told private Tasnim news agency.

The driver of the convoy, and the head of Kermanshah Veterinary Organization were killed, the report said.

Following the shooting, the gunmen set their own car ablaze and ran to the border region, Tasnim news agency reported.

The identity and affiliation of the attackers were not disclosed by Iranian officials, but local reports said the assault is under investigation and the results will be announced accordingly.

Falahat Pisheh is a member of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission.

Iran's western borders, inhabited mostly by the ethnic Kurds, have recently witnessed many bloody conflicts between Iran's security forces and armed Kurdish militants, who claim to be fighting for the Kurds' civil rights. Endit