Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have deployed large numbers of forces and military equipment, including heavy and medium weapons, to several areas of Iran’s Kurdistan region, the Kordestan Human Rights Network reported Wednesday, citing local sources.

Axar.az informs, citing Iran International, the group said deployments had been reported in Sanandaj, Kamyaran, Sarvabad, Marivan and Baneh, with forces and military convoys arriving from other provinces.

A source in Kamyaran told the rights group that hundreds of IRGC special forces, believed to be members of its Saberin unit, had been deployed in recent weeks around villages on the slopes of the Shaho mountains and had set up ambush positions after arriving.

Sources in Sanandaj, Sarvabad and Marivan also reported that IRGC reconnaissance forces from the Hamzeh Seyed al-Shohada base in Urmia had been transferred to the Guards’ Beit al-Moqaddas base in Sanandaj, the network reported.

According to the report, those forces took part in artillery shelling and drone attacks last week in the mountainous areas of Shaho and Marivan.

Another source in Baneh told the network that an IRGC convoy equipped with artillery had been deployed around the border mountain area of Surin.