One Kolbar Killed, Two Injured in Direct Shooting 

On September 16, 2022, the military forces killed a kolbar (cross-border carrier of goods) and injured two others in a  direct shooting incident at the Nowsud border area In Kurdistan Province.

According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, quoting Kurdpa, on September 16, 2022, the Iranian military shot a kolbar identified as Esmail Abdi, 32 at the border area. Two other kolbars identified as Mokhtar Fattahi, 36, and Hamid Ahmadi were seriously injured.

According to an informed source, Ahmadi was injured in the neck and Fattahi in the arm and both were hospitalized in Kermanshah. Abdi’s body has not yet been delivered to his family.

At Least 30 PKK Fighters Killed or Injured

HRANA News Agency – An Iranian military commander has announced that at least thirty members of PKK have been killed or injured since fighting resumed ten days ago in Kurdistan alongside the western and northwestern regions of Iran.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Hamid Ahmadi, a military commander with the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, has reported that at least 30 guerrilla fighters of Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) have been killed or injured by Sepah Pasdaran.

Iranian state media has reported, “Sweeping military operations continue in the northwestern regions of the country in order to get rid of members of the terrorist group, PKK.”

HRANA previously reported that on Friday, September 2, 2011, Iranian military forces resumed operations alongside the country’s western borders after a ten-day delay.