Balochistan: Four members of Iran’s IRGC killed in Khash

ZAHEDAN: At least four personnel of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have been killed in an attack on Saturday in Balochistan’s Wash (Khash) city.

According to details, unknown armed men attacked a vehicle of Iran’s Basij forces, also dubbed as the oppressive arm of the Iranian regime in Balochistan, at Caravander road in the Noorabad region of Khash city.

As a result of the ambush, three members of Basij forces including Mohammad Omerzai, Nader Rigi, and Hamid Suhraabzai were killed whereas the fourth dead official is said to be from the IRGC.

The three killed Basij were of Baloch ethnicity.

The official IRNA news agency confirmed citing a Guards (IRGC) statement on Saturday that on Friday evening four security forces members were killed “during a clash with bandits in the Khash region in Balochistan.”

It is worth mentioning that Kurds, Arab of Al-Ahwaz, Turks of South Azerbaijan and Baloch people are among the suppressed and occupied nations who have been struggling for the right to life and freedom.

Iran has long been conspiring against Balochistan as initially, it divided Balochistan into small administrative units. It has banned education in Balochi language, prevented people from naming their children with Balochi names and changed the historic names of all major cities in Balochistan.

In its latest and seemly final mischief against the Baloch people, the Iranian state has decided to remove the name of Balochistan from its official documents and textbooks.

Such repressive policies of Iran and seen in Balochistan as a colonial rule due to which there is a growing resentment and agitation against Iran.

Baloch Human Rights and political activists also say that the Iranian state’s IRGC and Al-Quds forces are deliberately and forcibly sending ethnic Baloch Basij forces in Balochistan under a pre-planned policy to pit Baloch people against each other.