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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said five of its members were killed when Israeli warplanes struck sites around Khorramabad in the western province of Lorestan early Saturday, according to state-affiliated Mehr News Agency. The attack is the deadliest acknowledged by the Guards inside Iran since last month’s cease-fire ended a brief but intense conflict with Israel. The Khorramabad strike follows a reported Israeli drone attack on an IRGC base in Bostanabad, East Azerbaijan, on Thursday night that Iranian outlets said also caused casualties. Israel has not commented on either incident. Iranian media later on Saturday carried separate, unconfirmed accounts that six Guards were killed in Najafabad in Isfahan Province and up to ten in the central province of Yazd, suggesting a widening campaign. Earlier in the week, semi-official reports said three Iranian Navy personnel died in an Israeli strike on the southern port city of Bandar Abbas. The latest fatalities come less than a month after the 12-day Israel-Iran war, which Tehran’s judiciary says left more than 900 people dead in Iran, while Israeli authorities put their own death toll at 28. A cease-fire has been in place since 24 June, but cross-border attacks and covert operations have persisted. Residual dangers from the conflict also continue to claim lives: on Monday the IRGC said two of its engineers were killed while clearing unexploded Israeli ordnance in Khorramabad, underscoring the lingering security risks even in areas no longer under direct attack.
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