NCRI - Families and local residents of Ivan-Gharb in Ilam province, western Iran, attended mourning ceremony of three teenagers killed by the special units of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on 30 April 2008, in a bloody crackdown of an anti-government demonstration.

Kasra Miri, Ashkan Bibak and Milad Hassani were brutally gunned down and killed during a clash between the angry crowd who staged a protest against the mullahs’ sham election and IRGC suppressive forces.

By calling the protesters, especially the youths, as "thugs and hooligans," Saeed Hashemi, deputy director for political and security affairs in Ilam province said, "After breaking windows of government buildings and banks in the city's main high road, thugs and hooligans attacked the governorate's offices where they clashed with security forces."

Qanbari, Majlis deputy for Ilam province, acknowledged the crimes committed by government forces and said, "The government forces opened fire on people without any prior warning. There are three teenagers; 12, 16 and 17 years of age among the dead which shows that the government forces fired indiscriminately into the crowd."