London, May 06 – A group opposed to the government of Iran announced on Saturday that its members had executed a local commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in the south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan.The Baluchi group calling itself Jondollah said in a statement that its members had killed IRGC Colonel Hamid-Reza Kaveh. The statement also denied that some of Jondollah’s members had been arrested by authorities.
In March, the group claimed responsibility for an armed attack on a convoy of government officials in the province, which left twenty-two government and provincial officials dead and at least seven, including the governor of the city of Zahedan, critically wounded.
In April, IranÂ’s state-run media reported that security forces had killed the groupÂ’s leader Abdolmalek Reigi along with 11 of its members on the border with Afghanistan. The claim proved to be false after Reigi subsequently appeared on an Arabic-language satellite channel denying such rumours.
Iran has not confirmed the groupÂ’s latest announcement.