At least seven members of the Fatemiyoun, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-funded and trained Shi'ite militia, composed primarily of Afghans, and one gunman were killed in clashes at a school reportedly used as a base by the terror group in Iran's Sistan and Baluchestan province on Monday, according to the Haalvsh human rights monitor.Unknown gunmen attacked the terrorists at the base in the Sofla School in the village of Bir, in Kahiri district of Konarak County, Haalvsh reported.Sources told the human rights monitor that the two armed motorcyclists entered the village at 4 p.m. on Monday and opened fire on the Fatemiyoun forces stationed at the school.
In addition to the seven or more killed, several people are said to have been critically wounded and removed from the scene by ambulance.تکمیلی به گزارش حال وش/امروز دوشنبه ۱۱ آبان۱۴۰۵،در پی حمله افراد مسلح به مدرسه بیر سفلی در روستای بیر از توابع بخش #کهیر شهرستان #کنارک ، دستکم هفت تن از نیروهای وابسته به شبهنظامیان فاطمیون کشته و شماری دیگر مجروح شدند. ادامه در گزارش در کانال تلکرام. https://t.co/8pOC5UGGos https://t.co/RwCYZdaL7U— حال وش (@haalvsh) November 2, 2026Though Haalvsh did not identify the gunmen, the IRGC-owned Tasnim News Agency said they were affiliated with Jaish al-Adl, a Baloch nationalist militant organization operating across the Iran-Pakistan border.Tasnim did not report on any casualties from the event beyond a wounded gunman, whom it claimed had attempted to attack “army personnel.”Iranian regime security officer killed by gunmanAdditionally, Haalvsh reported a regime security officer killed by an unidentified gunman in Saravan city, Saravan County, in the same province, at around 7:45 a.m. on Tuesday – near the governor's office building and the local branch of the Islamic Azad University.The slain security force member was identified as 3rd-Lt. Hojjat Vafakarde, a member of the Saravan County police intelligence unit.Tasnim reported that the attack was carried out by members of “a terrorist group affiliated with the United States and the Israeli regime.”
The Jerusalem Post calls the Fatemiyoun members killed at the school terrorists and a terror group in its own voice, with no source for the label. It calls their attackers a militant organisation and puts the word terrorist in quotation marks when Iranian media use it. The outlet also calls a killed police officer a regime security officer in its own narration.
Labels people on one side's word
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“the terror group”
Why this matters
The words "the terror group" label the Fatemiyoun, whose members were killed, as terrorists in the outlet's own voice. The same sentence calls them a Shi'ite militia, and no source is given for the stronger label.
The impression it gives
A reader believes it is an established fact that the dead belonged to a terrorist organisation.
The context
The article names no source for the terror label. Its only source for the killings, Haalvsh, is cited for the facts of the attack, not for this label. The outlet calls the attackers' group "a Baloch nationalist militant organization", so it reserves the word terror for one side.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“a Baloch nationalist militant organization”
The words "attacked the terrorists" go further. They call the people shot dead terrorists outright in the outlet's own narration of the killing.
The impression it gives
A reader takes the dead as terrorists and reads their killing as an attack on terrorists, not on people stationed at a village school.
The context
Nothing in the article supports the label. When Iranian media call attackers terrorists, the outlet puts the word in quotation marks and attributes it to Tasnim. It applies no such care to the label it gives the Fatemiyoun dead.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“a terrorist group affiliated with the United States”
At least seven members of the Fatemiyoun, a Shi'ite militia funded and trained by the IRGC, were killed when two armed men opened fire on them at a school reportedly used as their base, according to Haalvsh.
Uses a loaded word
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“Haalvsh reported a regime security officer”
Why this matters
The outlet repeats "regime" in its narration of a police officer's killing. The word is placed beside Haalvsh's name, but nothing shows Haalvsh used it.
The impression it gives
A reader may think the source itself described the officer this way.
The context
S3 identifies the dead man as a member of the Saravan County police intelligence unit. That is a state police officer, and the word regime adds a verdict the facts do not carry.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“a member of the Saravan County police intelligence unit”