'Terrorists' kill two IRGC members in western Iran: State media

Attackers shot dead two members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) at their home in the western city of Paveh, near the border with Iraq's Kurdistan region, state media reported Tuesday.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the shooting, but Tehran has frequently blamed Kurdish separatist groups in the area for previous violence, accusing them of having links to the United States and Israel.

The two members of the IRGC were killed in "a terrorist and cowardly act," state television said, adding that the two other IRGC members were wounded.

State television said "exact details of this incident and the measures being taken to identify those responsible are under review."

Separately, state television reported that a family's vehicle came under gunfire on Monday in the southeastern town of Saravan, in Sistan-Baluchistan Province, killing the father and wounding the mother.

The woman later died of her injuries.

Authorities did not immediately identify those responsible or provide further details about the victims.  

State television, however, said the attack "was carried out by Zionist-American mercenaries," a term Iranian officials commonly use for separatist and militant groups.

Sistan-Baluchistan, which borders Pakistan and Afghanistan, has long seen clashes between security forces, insurgents and drug smugglers.

One of Iran's poorest provinces, it is home to a sizeable ethnic Baloch population, most of whom are Sunni Muslims in a Shiite-majority country.