Masked gunmen on Wednesday ambushed and killed the local commander of a paramilitary security force in southwestern
Iran, an associate of Iran's top general recently killed in an
American drone strike in Baghdad, the official IRNA news agency reported.
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The slain commander, Abdolhossein Mojaddami, headed the Basij forces, a paramilitary wing of the Revolutionary Guard used for internal security and other tasks, in the town of Darkhoein.