| It would be nice if Iran could get them to give up their jihadi pets, but history suggests it isn’t likely. |
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has demanded Pakistain act "decisively against anti-Iranian terrorists" in a phone call with the country’s premier, Tehran said, a month after a bloody attack on security forces.
Iran says a Pak jacket wallah was behind the February 13 attack that killed 27 Revolutionary Guards in its volatile southeastern province of Sistan-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...
A Sunni jihadist group, Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice),
| ...formed in 2012 as a successor to the Sunni Balochi independence group Jundullah (Soldiers of God), which operates on both sides of the Pak-Iranian border. The Pak version has close relations with al-Qaeda and the Pak Talibs and is probably a false nose and mustache for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... |
Iran has accused Pakistain’s army and intelligence agency of sheltering the jihadists and summoned the country’s ambassador in the wake of the attack.
In the phone conversation Saturday evening with Pak Prime Minister Imran Khan
... aka
Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems...
, Rouhani called to maintain good ties and pointed the finger of blame at Tehran’s traditional regional and international foes.
"We shouldn’t allow decades of friendship and brotherhood between the two countries be affected by terrorist groupuscules that we both know from where they are being armed and financed," Rouhani said, according to a government statement.
The Iranian president was alluding to the United States and Israel, as well as Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and the United Arab Emirates, which it accuses of aiding jihadist groups responsible for attacks from Pak soil.
February’s bombing was the latest of numerous attacks on Iran’s security forces and officials in Sistan-Balochistan, where the minority Sunni Baluchis accuse the authorities of discrimination.