The killing of a women's recruitment commander and a police officer in two separate attacks in Maharstan On Wednesday, October 14, following two separate armed attacks in the city of Maharstan, located in the southeastern province of Sistan and Balochistan, a local commander of the women's movement and a police officer were killed. The Fars news agency, a media outlet close to the Revolutionary Guards, reported that Afsana Akila, commander of one of the women's recruitment areas in the city of Maharstan, was killed by armed men in front of her home. In covering this news, the Islamic Republic's media attributed this conflict to "factors associated with America and Israel" without providing any evidence or documentation. In other incidents in the same city, the Sistan and Balochistan Police Information Center reported an attack by unknown gunmen on a police patrol car. According to this report, following the resistance and the clash of the police forces with the attackers, one of the policemen named "Mohammed Ali Shahriari" was seriously injured and died after being transported to the hospital.