Rebels Kill Eight Iran Soldiers on Pakistan Border
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Eight Iranian border guards have been killed in a clash with Sunni rebels who had infiltrated from neighboring Pakistan, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
"Armed terrorists entered Iran from Pakistan and clashed with border guards, killing eight soldiers before fleeing back to Pakistan," Ali Asghar Mirshekari, deputy governor of Sistan-Baluchistan province, told the news agency.
The southeastern province has a large Sunni Muslim community and has seen repeated attacks by militants on the security forces of mainly Shiite Iran.
Sunni militant group Jaish-ul Adl (Army of Justice) said its fighters carried out the incursion in Negur district on Monday night, Iranian media reported.
The clash was the deadliest since October 2013 when 14 border guards were killed in an attack also claimed by Jaish-ul Adl.
Mirshekari urged Pakistani officials to "arrest the terrorists and hand them over to Iran to prevent Pakistan from becoming a parade ground for terrorists."
There have been repeated deadly clashes in the border area. Three Iranian soldiers were killed in an ambush in December and three more in an attack in the town of Saravan in October.
Earlier on Monday, ground forces of the elite Revolutionary Guards killed three suspected militants and wounded two in an operation in two towns north of Negur, their commander said.
"On Monday morning, a terrorist group affiliated with foreign intelligence services was disbanded by the Guards ground forces in Qasr Qand and Nikshahr towns," General Mohammad Pakpour said in a statement, adding that multiple arrests were made.
The security forces have also come under attack near Iran's western border with Iraq, another region with a significant Sunni community.
Eight security personnel have been killed in the region since the Persian new year on March 21, the Fars news agency quoted deputy police chief for social affairs Brigadier General Saeid Montazer-al-Mahdi as saying on Tuesday.
"Five border guards in Sumar, Kermanshah province and also three police officers in Hamidieh, Khuzestan province have been killed," Montazer-al-Mahdi said.
Police made several arrests on Monday in connection with the Hamidieh attack, he added.
In Sistan-Baluchistan, security forces also clash frequently with drug traffickers. The province lies on a major transit route for opium and heroin being smuggled from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Iran has spent millions of dollars building a wall along its 1,800-kilometer (1,050-mile) border with Afghanistan and Pakistan in a bid to prevent infiltration.
Work on the barrier began in the 1990s and is expected to be completed before the end of the year, officials have said.
07 April 2015, 08:41
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hope these sectarian iranian terrorists did not suffer too much.... teeeeeheeeeeheeeee : D
07 April 2015, 10:55
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Why is it that every time wahhabi extremists kill and spill blood everywhere their supporters cheer, but they are the first ones to cry when they get smashed?
07 April 2015, 12:07
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mowaten of iran is full of frustration and is projecting a lot, lol.
07 April 2015, 13:03
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Because they are cowards, just like Israel. They are ready to throw punches, but when they get striked back, they whine in humiliation.
07 April 2015, 16:14
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Taking Idlib that is a few miles away from Turkey the takfiris stronghold, matters not. It is of no military value, the takfiris kept streaming in from the border in that battle, so the government made a tactical decision and pulled out. Idlib will look like Homs soon enough.
About 2 years ago, I don't know who you are, or what kind of garbage you are trying to pull off. I took joy in the intern takfiri fighting indeed, nothing is better than them killing each other.
The Syrian Government still controls all the important areas of Syria and they have an intact effective airforce. I believe this war will continue for quite sometime.
07 April 2015, 09:35
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I am looking for qualified sub-contractors who believe in my vision for Yemen and Iran. Business is exceeding all expectations.
07 April 2015, 11:47
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I thought Iran became a huge nuclear power and nobody dares to attack it! Hmm
07 April 2015, 15:10
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Human rights and freedoms in Iran are protected and upheld by the Beseej militia lol
07 April 2015, 23:25
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Proof reading/ tweeking @Abbas: As part of the iranin Islamic Rep the public or Iran, we extend our hearts, aouls, blood, hands and most importantly tungs to the lords or the Twelvith sect that care about out of what qe do here in Lebanon. Our support to our brothers in Iran is a return of all the money arms aid and rev guards they aend us against all lebaneae and to control more what is not for us. LONG live my sect only and death to all others because we are selfish and we don't care and in your eyes.... labayk ya Nasroolaah.
07 April 2015, 23:28
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Proof reading/ tweeking @Abbas: As part of the iranian Islamic Rep the public or Iran, we extend our hearts, souls, blood, hands and most importantly tungs to the lords or the Twelvith sect that care about out of what qe do here in Lebanon. Our support to our brothers in Iran is a return of all the money arms aid and rev guards they send us against all lebaneae and to control more what is not for us. LONG live my sect only and death to all others because we are selfish and we don't care and in your eyes.... labayk ya Nasroolaah.
