TEHRAN: Three members of Iran’s security forces were killed in clashes with gunmen on Saturday, state media reported, in a region plagued by violence involving armed groups including drug traffickers and separatists. State television initially said four gunmen were also killed during the operation against “terrorists” in Iran’s southeast. But Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the ideological arm of the military, later updated the toll to five gunmen dead, in a statement carried by state TV. State
