The state-run Tasnim news agency, affiliated with the terrorist Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reported on Friday, January 9, the death of seven forces affiliated with the Basij paramilitary organization and the intelligence apparatuses of the Iranian regime in Razavi Khorasan Province in northeastern Iran.
According to Tasnim, the so-called “Martyr” Foundation, a regime-affiliated body that handles affairs related to killed regime forces, announced that these individuals were killed during what the Iranian regime calls “the recent unrest,” coinciding with the nationwide uprising of the Iranian people, in the cities of Mashhad and Joghtay.
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According to the report, the names of six of those killed in Mashhad are: Mohammad Hadi Sobhani-Far, Mehdi Aliabadi, Asghar Niazi, Hadi Yazdani, Farajollah Shooshtari, and Amir Sadegh Javanshiri.
The state-run Tasnim news agency also reported the killing of another individual named Mostafa Keyvanloo Shahrestanki in recent days in Joghtay County.
This report was published as, in recent days, alongside the expansion of public protests and demonstrations across various parts of the country, numerous reports have emerged of clashes between protesting citizens and the regime’s repressive forces.
