Senior Iranian IRGC officer said stabbed to death during Iran protests

Senior Iranian IRGC officer said stabbed to death during Iran protests



Intelligence officer Col. Nader Bairami one of three security officers reported killed in recent days as deaths of children amid bloody crackdown spark further protests

November 18, 2022 (Tasnim)
Protesters stabbed to death a senior intelligence officer in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps during demonstrations in the Kurdish province of Kermanshah, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported Friday.

“Col. Nader Bairami, the IRGC’s intelligence officer was killed by rioters while on duty in the city of Sahne in Kermanshah,” Tasnim said.

The report said Bairami tried to intervene to stop demonstrators from attacking a passerby when he was stabbed to death.


Officials said the perpetrators had been arrested.

The official IRNA news agency said meanwhile that two members of the security forces had been killed in Bukan in western Iran on Thursday.

The incidents come as funerals for young Iranians, including a small boy, who families say were killed in a state crackdown, sparked a new wave of anti-regime protests on Friday in the Islamic Republic.

The authorities have responded with a crackdown that a human rights group says has left 342 people dead, half a dozen already sentenced to death and thousands more arrested.

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