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 Iran
has killed a member of a “hardline religious group” responsible for the
murder of four forest guards and arrested another one, the local media
reported yesterday.

“In an
operation around the town on Dehgolan, the police was able to kill one
person and arrested another one,” official Irna news agency quoted the
deputy governor general of Kordestan province, Iraj Hasanzadeh, as
saying.

“The
person arrested was wounded during the operation and he told us that he
and his comrade were behind the killing of the four forest guards,”
earlier this month, he said. Hasanzadeh said the pair were members of a
“hardline religious group.” “The members of this group are more than two
and there is a search underway to find the others,” he said. Hasanzadeh
did not identify the group.