November 10, 2017
Iran regularly announces clashes with militants near the borders that result in several militants being killed. Last week, however, state television reported that eight Iranian border guards were killed in a clash near Chaldoran in West Azerbaijan Province. The report insisted that the border guards had inflicted heavy causalities on the militants. The report did not describe the political affiliation of the militants. That region has long seen infiltration by Kurdish rebel groups. But in the past year, Iran has spoken of clashing with fighters from the Islamic State trying to cross the border.