"Land speculators close to IRGC attacked IranAirForce base in Mahmudabad, Mazandaran province & tried to take over its lands & its residential town in North of Iran. They had brought bulldozers to destroy fence & runway of the base. Three of them were killed." "The base commander ordered the soldiers to open fire at the intruders who had thrown stones at the IRIAF soldiers & had beaten them with sticks." "Iran Air Force uses the Mahmudabad base for training of its CH-47C Chinook helicopter pilots & also for the Search & Rescue training in CaspianSea.