Tehran 0
12 May 2021

The IRGC seized an arms shipment in western Iran that it claimed “were planned to be transported to the central regions inside the country in order to be used in terrorist attacks in the run-up to the June presidential elections”. The same day, the IRGC reported killing seven “anti-revolution terrorists who had infiltrated into the country from Turkey”; two IRGC members also died in the clash.

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