Iran kills four after deadly attack in southeast: state media

Iranian forces killed four militants after a deadly attack on a police station in the restive southeast, state media reported on Tuesday, bringing the death toll to eight.

On October 26, militants from the Pakistan-based Jaish al-Adl group killed 10 police officers in Taftan, Sistan-Baluchistan province – one of the deadliest attacks in the region in recent months.

“A total of eight terrorists have been killed” during operations in the province, said Ahmad Shafahi, commander of the Revolutionary Guards, as quoted by the official. IRNA news agency.

“Fourteen other terrorists have been arrested,” he said, including key figures involved in the Taftan attack, adding that security forces seized a large quantity of weapons and ammunition.

late Monday, IRNA Mohammad Pakpour, commander of the Guard’s ground forces, said the militants who carried out the October 26 attack “were not Iranian,” without specifying their nationality.

Sistan-Baluchistan lies on the border with Afghanistan and Pakistan and is one of the most impoverished provinces of the Islamic republic.

It has long been a focal point for cross-border attacks by separatists and Sunni extremists, and clashes between security forces and armed groups are common.

At least six people, including police officers, were killed in two separate attacks in the province in early October.

Jaish al-Adl claimed responsibility for the attacks on Telegram.

The group was founded in 2012 by Baluch separatists and is considered a “terrorist organization” by both Iran and the United States.