At least five paramilitaries killed in an attack in southeastern Iran, near the border with Pakistan

MADRID 11 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –

At least five members of a paramilitary force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, the Basij group, were killed this Sunday in an attack in the Iranian city of Saravan, in the province of Sistan and Balochistan, near the border with Pakistan.

According to the FARS news agency, linked to the Revolutionary Guard, after the incident the “established units have been quickly sent to the area and the persecution of the criminals by Islam fighters continues.”

Hours earlier, the spokesman for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s ‘Security Martyrs’ operation, Ahmad Shafaei, announced that security forces have killed three suspected terrorists and arrested nine others in an operation in the aforementioned region. In addition, two others have surrendered to the authorities, as reported by the IRNA agency.

This operation was launched after the death of ten agents in an attack perpetrated at the end of October in Sistan and Balochistan by Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice), an extremist group that operates in the province, with a Baloch majority, and which has claimed responsibility for dozens of attacks against Iranian security forces in recent months.

Jaish al-Adl was founded in 2012 by former members of an extremist organization in the province, one of the most impoverished in Iran. Tehran has on several occasions called on Pakistan – which is also facing operations by Baloch separatist groups in the west of the country – to increase its cooperation to confront these organizations.