In strikes on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards headquarters in the southeast region of Sistan-Baluchestan, suspected Sunni Muslim extremists killed at least 11 members of the Iranian security forces and left 16 others dead, state television said on Thursday.
According to state TV, the Jaish al-Adl organization and security troops engaged in nocturnal fighting in the cities of Chabahar and Rask.
Majid Mirahmadi, the deputy interior minister, said on state TV that “the terrorists failed to succeed achieving their goal of seizing the Guards headquarters in Chabahar and Rask.”
Ten additional security agents were reportedly hurt in the battle in the poor area, which is primarily home to Sunni Muslims, according to State TV.
According to Jaish al-Adl, it aims to provide the ethnic minority Baluchis in Iran Shi’ite-majority better living circumstances and more rights. It has taken credit for a number of attacks on Iranian security personnel in Sistan-Baluchestan in recent years.
The region, which shares borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan, has long been the scene of regular gunfights between drug smugglers and Sunni extremists in Iran security forces.
Narcotics transported from Afghanistan to the West and other places pass via Iran on a regular basis.
Eleven security officers were slain by the extremist organization during an attack on a police station in the town of Rask in December.
Iran fired missiles at two of the terrorist group’s strongholds in Pakistan in January, which prompted Islamabad to launch a swift military counterattack against what it claimed were Iranian separatist fighters.
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