Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has deployed large numbers of troops and military equipment to several areas of Kurdistan Province in western Iran.

The organization reported that convoys carrying military equipment, including medium and heavy weapons, had arrived from neighboring provinces in the cities of Sanandaj, Kamyaran, Sarvabad, Marivan and Baneh, according to Iran International.

Sources in Kamyaran reported that hundreds of members of the IRGC’s Saberin special forces unit had been stationed in the mountainous Shaho area.

The report also noted the redeployment of IRGC intelligence personnel from the Hamzeh Seyyed al-Shuhada Headquarters in Urmia to the Beit al-Muqaddas base in Sanandaj.