Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug. 16
By Fatih Karimov – Trend:
At least three terrorists were killed in an armed clash in Iran’s western Kermanshah province, Brigadier General Manouchehr Amanollahi, the province’s police commander, said.
A terror team affiliated with “Takfiri groups” was dismantled in an armed clash in one of the districts of Kermanshah city, Amanollahi said, Fars news agency reported Aug. 16.
Iranian officials refer to the extremist Sunni armed groups, in particular in Syria and Iraq, as Takfiri.
Security forces seized different types of explosive devices and weapons, including explosive belts, from the terrorists, he said.
IRNA news agency quoted Asadollah Razani, governor general of Kermanshah province, as saying that the terrorist team affiliated to the “Islamic State” (IS) terrorist group, which had entered Iran through the border to carry out terrorist operations in central Iranian cities, perished in two days (August 15 -16).