Iranian Female Basij Commander Shot Dead Outside Home, Second Female Official Assassinated This Week

Adriana Stone 0 1 min read

Iranian Female Basij Commander Shot Dead Outside Home, Second Female Official Assassinated This Week

A female commander in Iran’s Basij militia was reportedly shot dead outside her home on Wednesday. The incident took place in Mehrestan County, in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan.

Mehr News Agency reported that Afsaneh Aghila was the commander of a Basij center in Mehrestan County. According to local Iranian media reports cited by the source, she was assassinated at the front door of her house.

The same reports described the attackers as terrorists affiliated with the US and the Zionist Regime. Those are claims attributed to local Iranian media in the supplied account. The report does not provide additional details about the alleged attackers, their identities, or any arrests.

The killing is being described as the second assassination of a female official in Sistan and Baluchestan in less than a week. Last week, Major Nosrat Eftekhari, identified as the province’s deputy police chief, was assassinated after terrorists detonated a roadside bomb.

The report also states, “The Iranian people are revolting,” but provides no further detail about the scope or cause of that unrest.

Open Source Intel separately identified the victim in a post about the reported shooting. Its caption read:

“This is Afsaneh Aqila, the high ranking female commander in Iran’s Basij militia, who was shot dead outside her home in Mehrestan, southeastern Iran, today.”

The victim’s name appears in two forms in the supplied reports: Afsaneh Aghila in the Mehr News account and Afsaneh Aqila in the Open Source Intel post. Both accounts place the shooting in Mehrestan and identify the woman as a senior female Basij figure.

The back-to-back killings highlight the dangerous security situation described in the report, particularly for officials connected to Iran’s police and Basij forces. Still, the available account does not include a motive, a claim of responsibility, or an official response from Iranian authorities.

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