Two days after an airstrike in Syria killed seven members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, state media reported on Thursday that three safety personnel, together with a deputy police chief, have been killed in a “terrorist assault” in Iran.
“Three safety personnel have been martyred in a number of nighttime terrorist assaults on army bases within the cities of Rusk and Chabahar,” Lieutenant Governor Alireza Marhamati informed state tv within the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan. Told.
“Deputy police chief Abbas Mir was martyred in one of many assaults on police station 11 in Chabahar metropolis,” state broadcaster IRIB information company mentioned, including that most of the attackers have been additionally killed or injured.
It additionally mentioned Jaish al-Adl, a jihadist group shaped in 2012 and blacklisted by Iran as a “terrorist” group, claimed accountability for the assault.
The assault got here lower than 48 hours after an airstrike on the Iranian consulate annex in Damascus killed seven members of the Revolutionary Guards, together with two generals.
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“The terrorists haven’t achieved their purpose of capturing the Guard headquarters in Chabahar and Rusk and are below siege,” Deputy Interior Minister Majid Mirahammadi informed state tv.
“Terrorists are stationed round these headquarters, firing blindly, and our courageous Guardsmen and police are confronting them,” he added.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the ideological wing of Iran’s army, maintains quite a few army posts in Sistan-Baluchistan province, on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
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The state has lengthy confronted unrest from drug smuggling teams, ethnic Baluch rebels and Sunni Islamic extremists.
In December, 11 cops have been killed at police headquarters in Rusk in one of many deadliest assaults in years.
Then, in July final 12 months, two cops and 4 assailants have been killed in one other assault on a police station within the provincial capital, Zahedan.
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Zahedan, one of many few Sunni-majority cities in Shi’ite-majority Iran, is within the midst of a lethal months-long outbreak that erupted in September 2022 over the alleged rape of a teenage lady by a police officer. It was additionally the stage for the protests that passed off.
The lethal clashes within the metropolis adopted the dying in Iran’s custody of Iranian Kurdish Mahsa Amini, 22, who was arrested on suspicion of violating the Islamic Republic’s strict costume code for ladies. , comes within the face of nationwide protests.
Hundreds of individuals, together with dozens of safety forces, have been killed and hundreds arrested throughout months of rallies.
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