IRGC Nabs Suspects in Recent Terrorist Attack West of Iran
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) forces arrested three men linked with a recent assassination attempt against an Iranian lawmaker in the western province of Kermanshah.
According to Colonel Fardin Ghahramani, the head of the public relations department of the IRGC in Kermanshah, the three are suspected of involvement in the terrorist attack in Dalahu County earlier this month.
The detained terrorists are members of parties hostile to the Islamic Establishment, he said, adding that the province’s IRGC intelligence department is looking into the case.
On July 10, Heshmatollah Falahat Pishe, a member of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, escaped the assassination attempt when gunmen riddled his car with bullets in Dalahu County, Kermanshah province.
The gunmen opened fire on the convoy of the lawmaker and his accompanying delegation after blocking their path near Rijab, a village in Ban Zardeh Rural District.
The attackers fled the area after setting fire to their own car.
Falahat Pishe, Faramarz Akbari, the governor of Dalahu, as well as Seyed Farzad Afzali, the province’s head of Fisheries Organization, suffered serious injuries in the shooting.
The driver of Dalahu’s governor and Mr. Nikmarz, the head of Kermanshah’s Veterinary Organization, were martyred in the terrorist attack.
Such attacks are rare in Iran, but terrorist groups like the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK) stage hit-and-run assaults in border areas from time to time.