Over the last six weeks, a total of 12 uniformed personnel have been killed and 13 others wounded in six shooting incidents in Kurdistan province.
No one took responsibility for the shootings until this week, when the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK) claimed to have carried out the most recent attack—but said nothing about the previous attacks.
The Pasdaran announced Monday that they had killed two of the terrorists who had shot two uniformed personnel last month in Sanandaj, capital of Kurdistan province. The Fars news agency reported that a Pasdar spokesman mysteriously refused to say what group the dead terrorists belonged to. The regime has never been shy about accusing PJAK of murderous attacks, so its reluctance this time raised questions.
Later, the state news agency said eight people were also arrested in the raid. It identified those detained as Salafis, an ultra-conservative version of Islam that has no standing in the Islamic Republic.
Those shot over the past six weeks have included policemen, soldiers, border guards and forest rangers. The only link has been that they all wear the uniform of the Islamic Republic.
In one of the incidents, the attackers opened fire on a police station. In another, they fired on a border post. In yet another, they shot at a police vehicle.