Stop Fundamentalism – The U.S. treasury says it has sanctioned IRGC Commander, the Iranian Brigadier General Gholamreza Baghbani, as a designated narcotics trafficker. 

Stop Fundamentalism - A Saudi Arabian diplomat, Khalaf Al Ali, was shot in the chest and died in the Bangladesh capital in the early hours of Tuesday, the deputy commissioner of Dhaka police told AFP.  He was found by the police near his home and rushed to the hospital where he died three hours later.

Stop Fundamentalism -  54 people were killed today in three different cities in Afghanistan, report news agencies.

48 of the deaths took place in Kabul city when crowed of mourners had gathered in streets to commemorate the day of Ashura which is one of the most important rituals of the Shiite Islam.

Stop Fundamentalism – Iran Fars News agency affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards Corps, IRGC, reported Monday that two members of Basij forces have died in clashes in eastern province of Sistan-Balouchestan.

“The two died in a terrorist operation staged by foreign collaborators”, said the IRGC’s public relations office in the province to Fars news.

Stop Fundamentalism – A Persian Language dissident website, Human Rights Activists for Democracy in Iran (hrdai.net) reported today that according to its sources in Iran, Saturday’s blasts in a Iranian Revolutionary Guards Force military base in southwest of Tehran, has left hundreds killed or injured.

One of the military personnel at the base who wanted to remain anonymous told HRDAI reporter that between 170 to 300 IRGC personnel have been badly injured or killed as a result of the blasts.

The IRGC base which is a major top secret ballistic missile site is 46 kilometers southwest of the Capital city of Tehran but the blasts were so strong they were felt by residents in the eastern part of the city. A major part of the military base was destroyed by the blasts.