{"id":19559,"date":"2025-09-19T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T03:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=19559"},"modified":"2025-09-19T03:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T03:00:09","slug":"basij-member-killed-in-iran-southeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=19559","title":{"rendered":"Basij member killed in Iran southeast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A member of Iran&#8217;s Basij paramilitary force, linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was killed in an attack in the country&#8217;s restive southeastern region on Thursday, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reza Azarkish, a local Basij member, in the city of Iranshahr in the province of Sistan-Baluchistan was shot dead by a terrorist group,&#8221; the Revolutionary Guards&#8217; ground forces said in a statement carried by the state TV.<\/p>\n<p>They did not specify which militant group was behind the attack but said efforts were ongoing to arrest the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in the same province, a police commander, wounded in an attack on Tuesday, succumbed to his injuries, bringing the death toll from that attack to three.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Colonel Ebrahim Fazilat, police commander of Sib and Suran county, who was seriously injured in the terrorist attack on the Zahedan-Khash route on September 16, joined his martyred companions,&#8221; the province&#8217;s Police Information Centre said, according to state news agency IRNA.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of Iran&#8217;s Basij paramilitary force, linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was killed in an attack in the country&#8217;s restive southeastern region on Thursday, state media reported. &#8220;Reza Azarkish, a local Basij member, in the city of Iranshahr in the province of Sistan-Baluchistan was shot dead by a terrorist group,&#8221; the Revolutionary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}