Iranian media reports say Iranian Revolutionary Guards crossed into Iraq and killed 30 Kurdish suspected militants for bombing a military parade last week. The attack on the parade in Iran's north-western town of Mahabad killed 12 people, mostly women and children, on the 22nd of this month. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the bombing in Mahabad but, a provincial Iranian governor has blamed “counter-revolutionary groups” for the bombing, which came on the 30th anniversary of the start of the Iran-Iraq war. Militants have long been active in the area, which is home to a sizeable Kurdish population. Kurdish separatists based in northern Iraq have also waged a long guerrilla campaign inside Turkey and have regularly clashed with Iranian security forces.