At least five senior commanders of the elite Revolutionary Guards were assassinated in volatile southeastern Iran on Sunday, in a suicide attack in which 60 people were killed or wounded, Iranian media reported. The dead included the deputy head of the Guards’ ground forces, General Nourali Shoushtari, and the Guards’ commander in Sistan-Baluchestan province, General Rajab Ali Mohammadzadeh, news agencies reported.
“Several Iranian military officers killed in terrorist attack,” state Press TV said in a breaking news headline.
The official IRNA news agency, citing an unconfirmed report, said the Guards officials were on their way to a meeting of tribal leaders when they were attacked.
Sistan-Baluchestan, bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan, is the frequent scene of clashes between security forces, Sunni rebels and drug traffickers.
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