ISIS reportedly attacked the Iranian border town of Qasre Shirin.
At least two Iranian soldiers were killed in the fighting.
ISIS Just Attacked Iran Iranian troops die in Qasre Shirin border clash https://t.co/5mnIbLlIAv #isis #iran news pic.twitter.com/tZ36rfv4z0
— espressino (@ulvdis) June 22, 2014
The Iranian regime reported on the attacks on the border town with Iraq
Medium.com reported:
On June 19, militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria attacked Iranian border guards near Iran’s border city of Qasre Shirin, according to Iranian social media.
A photograph showed the bodies of at least two Iranian officers apparently killed in the skirmish. Iran’s state-controlled media didn’t initially report the clash at Qasre Shirin, as Tehran routinely censors violent border incidents.
But Iranian officials took an unusual step and eventually talked about this particular incident. The first official to react was Fath Allah Hosseini, Qasre Shirin’s representative in the Iranian parliament. Hosseini insisted that residents were not afraid of ISIS, which has captured much of northwestern Iraq in recent weeks.
Then on June 21, Brig. Gen. Ahmad Reza Pourdastan—the Iranian army’s senior ground force commander—confirmed to the state-run YJC news agency that the incident took place. But Pourdastan said that the attackers were from the Kurdish militant group Party for Free Life of Kurdistan, also known by its Kurdish acronym PEJAK.
Map of cities under the control of #ISIS, #Iraq, #Syria. pic.twitter.com/ewP9KAEyuJ
— TheGreatWhatEver (@CruelName) June 22, 2014
This weekend ISIS took control of border crossings in Iraq and Jordan.