Yayha Rahim Safavi, the head of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, is quoted as accusing the United States and Israel of supporting terrorists groups in Iran.
Safavi was speaking at a service for 14 Iranian servicemen killed in a helicopter crash during an operation against rebels near the Turkish border last week.
In a separate development, two Iranian police officers were killed and four were kidnapped on February 27 in an ambush by suspected militants in Iran's southeastern Sistan va Baluchestan Province.
IRNA news agency quotes the local police chief as saying the "rebels" fled toward neighboring Pakistan.
(Mehr, AFP)
