Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has destroyed parts of the protected Shaho Mountain range in the Kermanshah Province by building roads and attempting to establish military bases, local residents and activists say. Residents of the village of Shamshir in Paveh, Kermanshah Province, told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that last week the IRGC sent a convoy of construction equipment and began building roads...

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has extended its military-security exercise in the Quri Qaleh and Piaz Dol highlands of the Shaho Mountains in Kermanshah Province, which began on 17 July, by three days, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The IRGC also announced artillery shelling in the protected area. Residents of villages near the Shaho Mountains told the KHRN that on 17 July...

For the second day in a row, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has carried out intense shelling, causing extensive environmental damage in the Shaho mountainous region near the villages of Tangivar and Palangan in Kamyaran, Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that IRGC forces stationed around the villages of Tangivar and Palangan carried out aggressive shelling on 29 January, causing...

An Iranian military convoy carrying the heavy equipments of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have stationed near the village of Kani Hosseinbag of Sarvabad, bombarding the heights of Shaho Mountain located between the villages of Deyvaznav and Daleh Marz on 5 April, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The shelling, which took place without prior notice to the people of the area,...

Kurdish Human Rights Network (KHRN): On Tuesday, Apr 23, 2019, the forces of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Kamyaran and the Gashki Operational Axis distributed flyers in mosques in villages around Shaho mountains to anounce the beginning of military manoeuvres in the mountainous areas of the villages of Dewaznaw and Palangan. IRGC has asked the local people to leave the area as soon as...

Despite the announcement that the manoeuvre of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) (known as Muharram 2) in Shaho mountain areas of Kamyaran has finished, the IRGC troops, are planning to build new bases in the Protected Area of Shaho while taking tight security measures in addition to harassing villagers and environmental activists. It is noteworthy that this manoeuvre was widely criticised by environmental activists. According...