Four militants attacked a police station, killing two security force members in southeastern Iran, state television reported on Saturday.
The armed group attacked a police station in Zahedan, a city in Iran’s Sistan and Balochistan province, some 30 kilometers from the Pakistani border, sparking a shootout. Two members of the security forces were killed, according to the report.
Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard said in a statement that the four militants were killed.
The report quoted Alireza Marhamati, deputy governor of the province, as saying the militants were trying to gain access to the police station and were equipped with grenades, but gave no further details.
State news agency IRNA also reported that authorities on Saturday hanged two men involved in the deadly Oct. 26 attack on the Shah Cheragh Mosque in the city of Shiraz, Iran’s second-holiest site.
The report says the two were members of the Islamic State extremist group and were behind the deadly attack that killed at least 13 people and injured 30.
The semi-official ISNA and Tasnim news agencies said the two were publicly executed in the city of Shiraz.
The gunmen who carried out the attack, identified as Sobhan Komrouni, died in a hospital in southern Iran days after the October 26 attack from injuries sustained during their arrest.
State television at the time blamed the attack on “takfiris,” a term referring to Sunni Muslim extremists who have attacked the country’s Shiite majority in the past.
The attack came as protesters in other parts of Iran marked a symbolic 40 days since the death of a woman in custody ignited the biggest anti-government movement in more than a decade. It seemed to be unrelated to the demonstrations.
