2 stories; same story? It looks like it to me but with vastly different outcomes.
Kurdish party announces killing nine Iranian Revolutionary Guards
Clashes between armed groups opposed to the Iranian regime and the Revolutionary Guards Corps in the Ashnawiya or Sheno district of western Azerbaijan province on the Iraqi-Iranian border were reported on Saturday.
Although the Revolutionary Guard confirmed that the clashes did not result in losses on the part of Iranian forces, but some reports say killing nine members of the Revolutionary Guards were killed.
The Revolutionary Guards said in a statement that the attackers were “terrorist groups driven by the hands of global arrogance,†while sources in Iraqi Kurdistan say that the attackers were members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which is struggling to win the rights of the Kurdish people in Iran for more than 60 years.
Read more at: https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2018/06/10/Kurdish-party-announces-killing-nine-Iranian-Revolutionary-Guards.html
Story 2:
Iran's Revolutionary Guards kill six who crossed border from Iraq
Reuters Staff
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iran’s Revolutionary Guards killed six militants who had crossed the border from Iraq and intended to carry out operations inside the Islamic Republic, Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour, the head of the Guards ground forces, said on Sunday, according to state media.
Three more militants were wounded in the clashes, which took place near Oshnavieh and Sarvabad in northwestern Iran, and explosives and weapons were recovered in the operation, Pakpour said.
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Pakpour did not elaborate on the identity of the militants, but he called them word “terroristsâ€, which the Guards generally use to mean Sunni Muslim militants who are enemies of Shi’ite Iran.
Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-security-militants/irans-revolutionary-guards-kill-six-who-crossed-border-from-iraq-idUSKBN1J60P1
http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/8821ae60-94f1-4596-95fd-3ee02e27972fIt seems to be in the same area, this Northwestern Iran.
This is why a lot that is reported from over there should be taken with a grain of salt.
