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A senior commander of the Kurdish opposition party, the Kurdistan Toilers’ Party (Komala), was killed during clashes with Iranian forces in Iran’s western Kurdistan province on Thursday. Rebwar Karimian, also known as Rebwar Daseran, was the head of Komala’s military commission was killed following several hours of fighting with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) near Mariwan, a town in western Iran, close to the Iraqi Kurdistan border. The clashes took place in the Piranakon area, where the IRGC shelled the region, according to a statement from the Komala party later in the day. Far…