Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Friday its intelligence forces have arrested four individuals involved in an assassination of a police officer in the northwestern city of Sanandaj.

The IRGC's intelligence service in the northwestern province of Kurdestan announced in a statement that in addition to the seizure of four suspects accused of the assassination of a police officer Hassan Yousefi, a number of other individuals behind the recent "unrest" in the province have also been identified and intelligence measures are underway to arrest them.

The statement did not provide further details about the identity of the arrested and the date of their seizures, but warned "those seeking to disrupt the (Iranian society's) security and order" of the IRGC's "decisive" response, saying people's security is a red line of the country's armed forces, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.

On Nov. 17, Yousefi was killed by "rioters" in a stabbing attack, Tasnim reported.

A number of Iranian police and security forces have been killed in recent "riots," which Tehran has blamed on the United States and some other countries which are responsible for "inciting riots and supporting terrorists" in the country. 

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