Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 04 The chief of the State Security Forces (SSF) in Iran’s south-eastern city of Iranshahr was killed during armed clashes with “bandits”, the official news agency reported on Thursday. Iran Focus
Tehran, Iran, Jan. 04 The chief of the State Security Forces (SSF) in Iran’s south-eastern city of Iranshahr was killed during armed clashes with “bandits”, the official news agency reported on Thursday.
The report quoted an anonymous SSF official as saying that Colonel Gholam-Hossein Jafari was shot and killed during a skirmish in the suburbs of the village of Delgan, close to Iranshahr.
One of the bandits was also killed, it said.
Iranshahr is situated in the impoverished province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan which has been a hotbed of anti-government activities since 2005.
In recent months, Iranian authorities have stepped up executions in the province in what many Baluchis believe is a response to a spate of attacks by dissidents on government and security officials.
