Posted on 04/26/2017 10:52:59 PM PDT by Cronos
Sunni militant group Jaish al-Adl claims responsibility for killing of guards in Sistan-Baluchestan province
Ten Iranian border guards have been killed by Sunni militants in a cross-border attack on the frontier with Pakistan, according to the Tasnim news agency..
“Ten border guards of Mirjaveh county in Sistan-Baluchestan province were martyred in an ambush by the terrorists in the Pakistani border’s zero-point,” Tasnim said.
In a statement carried on state media, Iranian police said the guards were killed by long-range guns and “the Pakistani government bears the ultimate responsibility of the attack”.
The Sistan-Baluchestan province in south-east Iran has long been plagued by drug smuggling gangs and separatist militants. The population of the province is predominantly Sunni Muslim, while the majority of Iranians are Shias.
Jaish al-Adl is a Sunni militant group that has carried out several attacks on Iranian security forces with the aim of highlighting what they say is discrimination against Sunni Muslims and the Baluch ethnic group in the province.
The militants claimed responsibility for attacks that killed eight border guards in April 2015 and 14 border guards in October 2013.
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We’ll see if the Iranian/NORK nuclear cooperation has gained Iran a bomb yet. A nuclear exchange between them and the Pakies could be in the offing.
Who to root for? I know. Both of them.
stop supporting the Sunni-Wahabbi Saudis.
+1000
They killed my friends and your fellow Americans.
They paid NO price>
Exactly. But stop selling weapons to the Saudis. One day it will come back to bite us (look at the taliban for example)
The Pakis also got missiles from North Korea (via China) in exchange for giving the NORKS nukes
...so sad.
While no fan of the Sunni Islamists, the Shia Mullahs in Tehran have been playing games, meddling, to help keep Afghanistan destabilized, with Russian weapons going to the Pashtun-Sunni Taliban, via transit through Iran.
It seems neither Sunni dominant Pakistan nor Shia dominant Iran want the nation that sits between them - Afghanistan - to be left alone. A destabilized Afghanistan represents neither a threat nor political alternative opposed to either Shia Islamist Iran nor Sunni Islamist dominated Pakistan.
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