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Militants kill 4 highway policemen in southeast Iran: state TV
[AlAhram] Militants shot and killed four highway coppers Sunday in southeast Iran, state media reported.State TV said the officers were on a routine mission on a road linking Khash and Taftan towns some 1200 kilometers (745 miles) southeast of the capital, Tehran, in restive Sistan and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province, when they were "attacked by terrorists," a reference to separatist groups. The province has witnessed multiple festivities between Iranian security forces and drug smugglers as well as a Sunni separatist group affiliated with the bad boy group al-Qaeda, known as Jeish al-Adl, or Army of Justice. Sistan and Balochistan province is a well-known route for drug and human trafficking from Pakistain and Afghanistan to Europa  ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...and Arab nations in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere. At least four road police patrol personnel were killed in a “terror” attack in the tense southeast Iranian city of Zahedan on Sunday. The patrol officers were shot dead inside their vehicle in Zahedan, the capital city of the southeast province of Sistan and Balochistan. Tasnim News agency states, “Terrorists ambushed the patrol car and shot at officers.” The Sunni-dominated province with a border with Pakistan and Afghanistan is no stranger to turmoil, and local security personnel are frequently attacked. Tasnim reported that authorities searched for the attackers on Sunday but did not disclose any other information on the suspects or potential motives. In the province earlier this month, there was an attack that resulted in the deaths of two police officers; in May, there were violent skirmishes that resulted in the deaths of five border guards. The region has played host to clashes involving Sunni extremist groups, Baluch rebels, ad drug trafficking. Related: Jeish al-Adl: 2022-04-24 Iran Revolutionary Guards general survives deadly ambush in restive region — report Jeish al-Adl: 2022-02-01 Revolutionary Guard Kills Gunman in Attack in Southern Iran Jeish al-Adl: 2021-03-22 Iran blames deadly bomb attack near Pakistan border on ‘terrorist group’ enemies Related: Sistan and Balochistan province: 2023-03-17 Iranian Border Forces Kill 11 Afghan Refugees in Sistan, Baluchistan Sistan and Balochistan province: 2021-03-22 Iran blames deadly bomb attack near Pakistan border on ‘terrorist group’ enemies Sistan and Balochistan province: 2017-05-18 A Pakistani's Suggestion, How Trump Can Secure the Strait of Hormuz Posted by: trailing wife 2023-07-24 |
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