The incident happened near the city of Divandarreh, located 98 km north of the provincial capital of Sanandaj.
Hamzeh Sayyed al-Shohada Base of the IRGC Ground Forces announced in a statement on Tuesday that following a clash with terrorists, Colonel Shakiba Salimi was killed along with two other forces. Some anti-Iran elements have also been killed by these IRGC members.
In July 2018, anti-revolutionary terrorists attacked a border post of the Hamzeh Sayyed al-Shohada Base in the western province of Kurdistan, killing 11 forces.