Utibe Ekoson
An attack by armed separatists on a police station in a southeastern city killed 19 people, including four members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps.The assailants in yesterday’s attack hid among worshippers near a mosque in the city of Zahedan and then stormed the nearby police stationHossein Modaresi, the provincial governor, was quoted as saying 19 people were killed, adding that 32 Guard members, including volunteer Basiji forces, were also wounded in clashes.It was not immediately clear if the attack was related to nationwide anti-government protests gripping Iran after the death in police custody of a young Iranian woman.Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets over the last two weeks to protest the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by the morality police in the capital of Tehran for allegedly wearing her headscarf too loosely.
