An officer of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, the elite Iranian military units) was killed in an attack that took place on Friday in the province of Kermanshah in the west of the Islamic Republic, the Iranian agency IRNA reported, citing a local official.

According to the head of Sahneh city, located about 60 km to the east of Kermanshah city (the administrative center of the province of the same name in the west of Iran), several protesters attacked the security forces on Friday night. As a result of the incident, an officer of the IRGC intelligence service was killed. Law enforcement officers arrested the attackers.

Street protests in Iran have not subsided for two months. During this time, a series of attacks occurred in a number of regions of the country, the victims of which became both the Iranian security forces and civilians. One of these attacks on Wednesday killed seven people in a market in the city of Izeh in Khuzestan province.