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IRGC said they struck groups in Baneh, Kurdistan, accusing them of smuggling US weapons from northern Iraq on behalf of the US and Israel
Iran's IRGC soldiers disembarking from a military helicopter during a drill. (AFP file photo)
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Monday their forces had struck groups linked to the United States and Israel in the western Iranian province of Kurdistan, near the border with Iraq.
In a statement carried by the ISNA news agency, the Guards said groups from “northern Iraq and acting on behalf of the US and the Zionist regime were attempting to smuggle a large shipment of American weapons and ammunition" into Iran.
They said the groups were hit in the Iranian city of Baneh in the Kurdistan region.
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