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Kurd rebels blamed
as Iran revolutionary guard gunned down
TEHRAN, Oct 19 (AFP)
A divisional commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps was killed in a
ride-by shooting in the western city of Sanandaj, the Kayhan daily reported
Saturday, blaming Kurdish rebels.
Saleh Sharifi was
gunned down in the mainly Kurdish town Wednesday by two motorcyclists
suspected to be militants of the leftist Komala, the Revolutionary
Organization of Kurdish Toilers, the paper said.
The Komala and the
rival Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) are the two main Kurdish rebel
groups active within the Islamic republic.
After briefly
allying themselves with the Islamic regime after the 1979 revolution, the
rebels were ruthlessly crushed by the security forces, particlarly the
Revolutionary Guards, in the 1980s.
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