TEHRAN – A top IRGC commander said on Tuesday that an anti-revolutionary group has been smashed in Sarvabad County in the Western province of Kurdistan.

The IRGC identified and killed 11 members of the anti-revolutionary group, Mohammad Hossein Rajabi, commander of the IRGC in Kurdistan province, told Tasnim news agency on Tuesday.

The members of the terrorist group were killed in an operation after 10 days of manhunt, he said.

He also said that three local members of the IRGC in Kurdistan were martyred in the operation.

Western and eastern borders of Iran have been a hotbed for terrorist activities, mainly influenced by weak border monitoring of neighboring countries, including Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

On June 13, the IRGC announced that its forces had killed five members of the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK) in the northwestern border city of Sardasht.

In another clash in southern city of Khash on June 13, police forces killed five members of a terrorist group which is an offshoot of Jaish ul-Adl.

Intelligence Ministry issued a statement on June 20 announcing it has foiled one of the “biggest terrorist plots of Takfiri-Wahhabi groups” in Tehran and some other cities.

Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani said on June 19 that some suicide attacks had been foiled in Tehran during the holy month of Ramadan.

NA/PA