The report stated safety forces killed three of the gunmen within the armed conflict within the nation’s restive southern province of Sistan and Baluchestan. It didn’t determine any of the victims.
State TV stated the assault occurred within the province’s capital metropolis of Zahedan. Police and safety forces instantly took management of the location, 1,130 kilometers or 700 miles southeast of the capital, Tehran.
A report by the semiofficial Tasnim information company, believed to be near safety forces, blamed the assault on the militant group Jaish al-Adl, which needs independence for Iran’s japanese Sistan and Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan provinces.
The province, bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan, has been the location of occasional lethal clashes involving militant teams, armed drug smugglers and Iranian safety forces.
In October, an assault on an Iranian police convoy within the province killed no less than 10 officers.
Sistan and Baluchistan province is among the least developed elements of Iran. Relations between the predominantly Sunni Muslim residents of the area and Iran’s Shiite theocracy have lengthy been strained.
