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Trouble in Iran: An interview with Jaish al-ʿAdl of Baluchestân

2022-12-18

Long. Grab your stimulating beverage of choice and find a comfortable chair.

[MidstoneCentre] BACKGROUND:
On September 30, the judge of the second branch of Sarāvān City Prosecutor's Office was targeted in an attack by armed individuals. On the same day, Jaish al-ʿAdl

... (Army of Justice) formed in 2012 as a successor to the Salafist Balochi independence group Jundullah (Soldiers of God), which operates on both sides of the Pak-Iranian border but is based in Pakistan. The Pak branch has close relations with al-Qaeda and the Pak Talibs and is probably a false nose and mustache for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, while the Iranian branch hangs out with Ansar Al-Furqan (Sistan-Balochistan) and Al Nusra (Syria), concentrates on attacking Iranian soldiers and police, and for some reason went after the Taliban in Afghanistan in early 2019...

took responsibility for the same and said in a statement that this attack was carried out in order to make the (Iranian) regime accountable for the killing of protestors in Zâhedân city.

According to Rights Group ~~Amnesia~~ Amnesty International, "Iranian security forces unlawfully killed at least 66 people, including children, and injured hundreds of others after firing live ammunition, metal pellets and teargas at protesters, bystanders and worshippers during a ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful crackdown after Friday prayers on 30 September in Zâhedân, Sistân and Baluchestân province. Another 16 people were killed in separate incidents."

Jaish al-ʿAdl was quick to react and release a statement. The organization said, an hour before claiming the attack, that "it has been observing the current issues in the country...and its strategy has been to refrain from taking any position in order to continue the peaceful protests and also to prevent the regime from making any excuses for the bloody suppression of the protestors. " "But," the statement continued, "after the bloodshed in Zâhedân...the organization announces that it will enter the field with all its power to hold the regime accountable."

Iran

...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence...
has been gripped by protests since the custodial death of Mahsa Amini on 16 September. She was arrested for allegedly breaching the Islamic dress code for women.

The first big protests erupted at Amini’s funeral in her hometown in the Kurdish region of Iran. The near-daily demonstrations continued, flaring up again 40 days after she was buried.

(Note: It's a tradition in Shīʿīte Islam to mark the al-Arba’īn -- 40 days -- after someone's death, usually with a show of grief. Thousands of people, mourners and protesters erupted into the streets in Saqez.)

The subsequent crackdown launched by Iranian government forces has further led to public outrage and after nearly 50 days since its inception, the protests show no sign of ending.

More than 130 universities have participated in protests nationwide and nearly 400 university students have been arrested as of 2 November, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) based in Washington. Overall, thousands of people have been detained and hundreds killed, according to rights groups (exact figures cannot be verified due to reporting restrictions).

Jaish al-ʿAdl (the "Army of Justice") is a Salafī-Jihadist group founded in 2012 that operates in southern Sistân and Baluchestân province of Iran and parts of Pakistain. The group is waging an insurgency against the Iranian government to liberate the province of Sistân and Baluchestân.

According to various media reports, the group was formed by the remaining members of Jundullah after the leader of the latter, Abdolmalek Rigi, was executed by Iran in 2010. Following the appointment of Abdul Rahim Mollazadeh, alias Salahuddin Farooqui, as the leader of Jundullah, Abdul Rahim Rigi (brother of Abdolmalek Rigi) declared the establishment of Jaish al-ʿAdl through the unification of armed factions.

Since then, it has carried out attacks against Iranian government officials and military personnel.

Israel Defense reported in 2019 that the group has over 500 members and followers. The number of active fighters is said to be over 100. Some of them are seasonal, including some from Pakistain, who are called upon for occasional attacks against Iranian government forces.

Salahuddin Farooqui is the current leader of Jaish al-ʿAdl. He was born in 1979 in Rāsk, Sistân and Baluchestân. It has been reported that he has close ties to Baloch tribes in Pakistain's 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...
region and has lived many years among the people there. He has voiced opposition to Iranian involvement in Syria and the backing of al-Assad’s regime. Farooqui has been consistent that the organization is only fighting for the support of Sunnis and ethnic Baloch in the region. In an interview with al-Arabiya, he actively denied having any links to ISIS or al-Qāʿidah.

Perhaps not directly, but who can say who is at the other end of a phone call? Or it could be straightforward taqqiya...

Another important leader of the group is Mullah Omar Darakhshan (unrelated to the Afghan Ṭālibān leader). He is the brother of Maula Bux Darakhshan, alias Mauluk, an Iranian Baloch who founded Sipah-e-Rasūl Allāh ("Army of the Prophet of Allah") in the 1990s and allied it with Pakistain’s anti- Shīʿah Sunni bully boy groups.

After Darakhshan was killed by Iranian forces in 2006, Omar, a clean-shaven man in his early 40s, led the anti-Iran group from Kulaho village in the district of Kech in Pakistain’s Balochistan province.

Mullah Omar clearly said in an interview that he does not lead a religious movement, although at the same time he maintained that Iran is suppressing the Baloch community because they are Sunnis and Baloch. He said that his group is fighting for its people’s religious and national rights.

The group has been designated a terrorist organization by Iran, Japan, New Zealand and the United States. The U.S. Department of State re-designated the separatist group as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) on July 2, 2019. Jaish al-ʿAdl was previously listed as an FTO with its former name of Jundallah
..."Soldiers of God," a name used by ~~two~~ multiple separate terror outfits, one active in Iran and the other in Pakistain. Both are Sunni organizations that target Shiites. 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...
, but the State Department decided to amend the designation to reflect its new alias.

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Three Executed in Iran for 'Terrorist' Acts and Murder

2021-01-23

[AnNahar] Iran's judiciary hanged two men on Sunday for "terrorist acts" and another for murder and armed robbery, the body's official Mizan Online news agency said.

The three were executed early Sunday morning in the southeastern 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...
province.

Two were named as Hassan Dehvari and Elias Qalandarzehi, arrested in April 2014 after being found with "a large amount of explosives" and weapons.

The pair were convicted of the abduction, bombing, murder of security forces and civilians, and of working with the jihadist Jaish al-Adl ("Army of Justice") group, Mizan said.

Dehvari and Qalandarzehi were also arrested in possession of documents from Jaish al-Adl on "how to make bombs" as well as "takfiri

...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
fatwas", terms used by Iran's Shiite authorities to refer to decrees issued by Sunni jihadists.

Jaish al-Adl has carried out several high-profile bombings and abductions in Iran

...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
in recent years.

In February 2019, 27 members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards were killed in a suicide kaboom claimed by the group.

Jaish al-Adl was formed in 2012 as a successor to Sunni hard boy group Jundallah
..."Soldiers of God," a name used by ~~two~~ multiple separate terror outfits, one active in Iran and the other in Pakistain. Both are Sunni organizations that target Shiites. 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...
("Soldiers of God"), which waged a deadly insurgency for a decade before it was severely weakened by the capture and execution of its leader Abdolmalek Rigi in 2010.

The third man executed was named as Omid Mahmoudzehi. He was convicted of armed robbery and the murder of civilians, Mizan said.

Rudaw’s take:

Iran’s executions of religious minorities continue unabated

Iranian authorities executed at least six prisoners in recent days, including members of minority groups, part of what an activist called a wave of executions that is angering the people.

Iran has repeatedly used the death penalty to silence dissent and in the early hours of Sunday morning executed Hassan Dehvari and Elias Qlandarzehi, state-run IRNA reported.

The two Sunni prisoners, Baluchis, were put into isolation on Friday in anticipation of their execution, according to their lawyer. Mohammad Reza Faqihi said his clients were taken into solitary confinement on Friday despite appealing their death sentence and requesting a retrial. The two prisoners were detained in 2015 and sentenced to death in December 2016.

A third prisoner, Omid Mahmoud Zehi, was executed reportedly for murder on Sunday.

A few days earlier, on Thursday, authorities put to death another three Sunni prisoners in Adalatabad prison in Mashhad. The executions were carried out without informing the families.

“The sentences of Hamid Rastbala, Kabir Saadat-Jahani and Mohammadl Ali Arayesh, the Sunni prisoners, were carried out on Thursday … in Mashhad,” Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported on Friday.

Hamid Rastbala had written a letter in the summer in which he said he was under relentless pressure to make televised confessions and described the torture the prisoners experienced. “Some of us were pepper-sprayed in our genitals and anus,” Rastbala wrote. Some of the charges “are related to 1996, while I was 12 at the time.”

The three men were part of a group of ten people who were detained in 2016 and kept in solitary confinement for 10 to 12 months. The detainees were mostly in their early teens at the time and were charged with membership in al-Furqan, a Sunni Salafi group that was active in Iran in the 1990s.

In late December, at least five Baluchi prisoners were put into solitary confinement in anticipation of their execution, their lawyer Mostafa Nili said. Two were later executed.

Baluchis are a mainly Sunni ethnic minority in Iran, mainly living in the southeastern Baluchestan region, near the border with Pakistan. Abdollah Aref, the head of Baloch Campaign that highlights human rights violations in the Sistan and Baluchestan area of Iran, said authorities have executed people because of the activities of their relatives.

"Hasan Dehvari was utterly innocent. His brother is active against the regime. He was detained because of his brother,” Aref told Rudaw English via WhatsApp.

This was not the first time a family member paid the price of a relative’s actions. "A few years ago, the authorities executed 16 Baluch citizens because their relatives were involved in anti- government activities," said Aref. Iran claims these individuals were involved in anti-establishment activities and were charged with rebellion against the state.

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China trying to point at a bird in a tree so nobody fixates on them poisoning the world with bio-hell.

2020-03-06

[ZDNET]

Chinese security firm says CIA hacked Chinese targets for the past 11 years

Qihoo 360 becomes second Chinese security vendor to blame the CIA for hacks against its civil aviation sector.

China's largest cyber-security vendor has published today a report accusing the CIA of hacking Chinese companies and government agencies for more than 11 years.

The report, authored by Qihoo 360, claims the CIA hacked targets in China's aviation industry, scientific research institutions, petroleum industry, Internet companies, and government agencies.

CIA hacking operations took place between September 2008 and June 2019, and most of the targets were located in Beijing, Guangdong, and Zhejiang, Qihoo researchers said.

Qihoo claims that a large part of the CIA's hacking efforts focused on the civil aviation industry, both in China and in other countries.

The Chinese security firm claims the purpose of this campaign was "long-term and targeted intelligence-gathering" to track "real-time global flight status, passenger information, trade freight, and other related information."

Qihoo says it linked the attacks to the CIA based on the malware used in the intrusions -- namely Fluxwire [1, 2, 3] and Grasshopper [1, 2].

Both malware strains came to light in early 2017 when Wikileaks published the Vault 7 dump, a collection of documentation files detailing the CIA's arsenal of cyber-weapons.

WikiLeaks claimed it received the files from a CIA insider and whistleblower, later identified as Joshua Schultz -- currently under trial in the US.

Weeks after the WikiLeaks Vault 7 revelations, Symantec confirmed that Fluxwire was the Corentry malware that they had been tracking for years.

"Qihoo 360 analysis found that the technical details of most of the samples are consistent with the ones in the Vault 7 document, such as control commands, compile PDB paths, encryption schemes," the Chinese researchers said -- echoing the findings of the Symantec report.

The Chinese researchers also claim they found Fluxwire versions deployed in the wild long before the Vault 7 leaks became public, with detection times matching the now-public Fluxwire changelog.

Furthermore, Qihoo researchers also claim that the malware's compilation times are consistent with US timezones. Ironically, this is a common technique that US investigators have used to link malware samples back to Chinese hackers many times in the past.

The Qihoo report does not bring anything new to the table. Most of the information in the Qihoo report was already public knowledge that was shared and confirmed from different sources more than three years ago.

The only new information included in the Qihoo report is the specific targets that have allegedly been hacked by the CIA in China, information that was not previously known before today's Qihoo blog post.

CALLING OUT FOR RETRIBUTION
But the Qihoo 360 report might also play a bigger role in the grand scheme of things and signal a change in how the Beijing government deals with the US and its offensive hacking operations.

Shortly after the report went live, news outlets known for being a mouthpiece for the Chinese regime have begun calling for "swift action" against "US institutions, including the CIA, its hacking group and personnel involved in the cyber-attacks."

"Legal and all other possible channels should be considered to remedy the damages the US attacks have imposed on Chinese institutions and the public," wrote today Global Times China.

This call for legal action against the US and CIA officers didn't come out of the blue but looks like the first steps towards retribution.

Last month, the US charged four Chinese military officers for the Equifax hack. Prior to that, the US Department of Justice frequently charged members of Chinese hacking groups, such as: ...

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Prosecutors describe ex-CIA engineer charged in massive leak as 'angry and vindictive'

2020-03-03

[FoxNews] Federal prosecutors said Monday that a software engineer on trial for the largest leak of classified information in CIA history was “prepared to do anything” to betray the agency.

Joshua Schulte is a former CIA coder accused of sending the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks a large portion of the agency’s computer hacking arsenal — tools the agency had used to conduct espionage operations overseas.

His defense attorney argued the man had been scapegoated for a breach that exposed secret cyberweapons and spying techniques.

Prosecutors have said the leak was devastating to national security, as it exposed CIA operatives, brought intelligence gathering to a halt and left allies wondering whether the U.S. could be trusted with sensitive information.

Schulte left a trail of evidence despite learned attempts to erase his digital fingerprints, Laroche said in closing arguments. Schulte became disgruntled at the CIA, he said, and took meticulous steps to plan — and cover up — the 2016 theft.

Schulte, 31, worked for a CIA group in Langley, Va., that designs computer code to spy on foreign adversaries. The so-called Vault 7 leak revealed how the CIA would hack Apple and Android cellphones in overseas spying operations.

The government settled too hastily on Schulte as the leaker, Shroff said, ignoring suspicious activity by one of his colleagues who was ultimately suspended. The prosecution's theory has “giant holes,” she said, including the unresolved question of why WikiLeaks waited nearly a year to publish the archive.

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Iran will punish terrorists, their masters

2018-12-07

[PRESSTV] Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has condemned a fatal terror attack that targeted Iran's strategic port city of Chabahar, vowing that the Islamic Theocratic Republic will bring the perpetrators and "their masters" to justice.

The top Iranian diplomat took to his Twitter page on Thursday to react to the car kaboom, which he said was perpetrated by "foreign-backed terrorists."
"We support our own terrorists, others are bad"
Earlier in the day, a vehicle laden with explosives went off close to a police headquarters in Chabahar, situated in the southeastern province of Sistan-and-Baluchestan.

The terrorist behind the wheel was seeking to force his way into the police post, but failed to do so as local security forces quickly intervened.

At least two coppers bit the dust and some 40 other people sustained injuries in the kaboom, which also killed the bomber.

The so-called Ansar al-Furqan terrorist group later grabbed credit for the assault.

"As we've made clear in the past, such crimes won’t go unpunished: In 2010, our security services intercepted & captured snuffies en route from UAE," Zarif wrote in the tweet.

He was apparently referring to a highly successful operation by Iranian intelligence services, which led to the capture in 2010 of Abdolmalek Rigi, the ringleader of the so-called Jundullah terror group. The bad boy outfit under Rigi was dismantled and he was executed later that year.

That operation followed a 2009 terror attack by bad boy forces of Evil that claimed over 40 lives in Sistan-and-Baluchestan Province.

"Mark my words: Iran WILL bring forces of Evil & their masters to justice," the foreign minister emphasized.

Sistan-and-Baluchestan -- which borders Pakistain -- has suffered several terror attacks targeting both civilians and security forces over the past years.

Iranian forces, from time to time, bust terrorist ringlets in the province, foiling their planned attacks and confiscating weapons and ammunition in the course of such security operations.

'ENEMIES SEEK CHAOS IN IRAN'S BIGGEST OCEANIC PORT'
Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38...
Rahmdel Bameri, caretaker of the Governor's Office in Chabahar County, underlined the strategic significance of the city as a free trade zone, which has a deep-water port on the Sea of Oman.

Chabahar is also the site of a port complex, which is being developed in cooperation with India as part of a new transportation corridor for landlocked Afghanistan.

Bameri added that such attacks are meant to "destabilize Chabahar, Iran's largest oceanic port, and disrupt the peaceful and friendly climate in there."

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Iran slams Pakistan over border guards abduction

2014-02-10

[DAWN] Iran on Sunday denounced what it called Pakistain's inability to secure its own borders after five Iranian soldiers were kidnapped and taken into its eastern neighbour by bully boys.

"We are unhappy with the Pak government over the abduction of our guards and their transfer to Pakistain," Fars news agency reported quoted police chief Esmail Ahmadi-Moghadam as saying.

Jaish-ul Adl, the rebel group formed in 2012 whose name in Arabic means Army of Justice, has said it was behind the kidnapping in Iran's restive southeast province of Sistan-Baluchestan.

The group posted pictures on its Facebook page it said were of the soldiers, handcuffed and being held in an unknown location.

The foreign ministry in Tehran summoned Pakistain's charge d'affaires, demanding that Islamabad "act firmly against the leaders and members of the terrorist group who have fled into Pakistain", media reports said.

Home to a large Sunni minority and ethnic Baluch in a predominantly Shiite country, Sistan-Baluchestan province has been the scene of unrest in recent years.

Jaish-ul Adl said in November it assassinated a local prosecutor, and in October it ambushed Iranian border guards, killing 14.

In response, Iranian authorities executed 16 "rebels" eight Sunni snuffies and eight narcos.

Another Sunni myrmidon group Jundallah (Soldiers of God), whose leader Abdolmalek Rigi was hanged in June 2010, has also attacked civilians and officials in Sistan-Baluchestan.

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The Army of Justice and the Threat of Sunni Militancy in the Sistan-Baluchistan Province of Iran

2013-12-22

Article contains some background on "The Army of Justice" Sunni militant group in Iran.
The latest series of attacks by JA have not been isolated incidents. The armed Sunni group has carried out several military operations against the Iranian forces since 2012. The latest was on December 5, when four members of JA were killed by Iranian security guards in a series of skirmishes along the border between Iran and Pakistan (JamNews [Tehran], December 5). The militant group warns of future attacks against Iranian officials, while the Iranian state calls for a firmer response to such attacks.

JA describes itself as a "political-military" movement of the "Ahle Sunnat-e Iran" (Sunnis of Iran), with the aspiration of freeing the Baluch people from the hegemony of the Iranian government. The leader of the group, Abdul Rahim Mollahzadeh (a.k.a. Salah al-din Farogi), comes from Rasak, a southeastern border town in the impoverished Sarbaz County wiwhose local population has close cultural connections with the Pakistani region of Baluchistan (Shafaf, November 12).

The movement maintains that it is a clandestine group that focuses on attacking military bases and deliberately avoids harming civilians in order to uphold a just war against the "Safavi" regime in Iran. The reference is to the Safavid Empire, which established Shia Islam as the state religion in sixteenth-century Iran.

The origin of the JA goes back to 2012, when the organization first emerged as an offshoot of Jundallah (Soldiers of God), a Sunni militant organization of Baluch ethnic background founded by Abdolmalek Rigi, who was executed by the Islamic Republic in 2010 (al-Arabiya, October 29; JameJam News, October 29; Shafaf, November 12). While Jundallah disintegrated with the death of Rigi, JA emerged as a new Baluch militant movement with strong sectarian ideological overtones. Unlike Jundallah, whose primary demand was that Tehran improve the lives of Iranian Sunnis, JA appears to be more of a separatist movement, demanding that the Iranian regime leave the Sistan-Baluchistan province.

In terms of organization, JA appears to be a tightly knit group of Sunni Baluch fighters who may have both rural and urban support in the Iranian and Pakistani border region. The group is based in three military camps near the Iranian-Pakistani border (JamNews December 2013). In operational terms, the group engages in activities such as the use of explosives against Iranian border guards, hostage-taking operations and assassination attacks against high-ranking government officials in the province.

The group has employed social media as a way to propagate its ideology and to express demands on the Iranian state. Videos and clips of military operations are posted online sporadically, often days or weeks after a military conflict between the organization and the Iranian military forces took place. JA leader Salah al-din Farogi and other commanders post anti-government statements on Facebook and YouTube, speaking of the oppressive nature of the Iranian regime and its efforts to marginalize Baluch, Arab and Kurdish populations. The videotaped confessions of prisoners purported to be Iranian intelligence officers are also posted on the group's Facebook and blog sites.

According to the Iranian state, JA is a foreign-backed militia that is modeled after the militant-political organization Sazman-e Mojahedin-e Khalq-e Iran (People's Mujahideen of Iran), a dissident-militant group known for its terrorist operations before and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution (Mashreq News, October 27). Tehran accuses JA of taking support from Israel and Wahhabi Saudi Arabia, which seek to destabilize the unity of Islamic Iran (ShiaNews, November 18).

In reality, JA is a political-military movement that reflects a recent wave of radicalization among the younger Baluch population. The trend towards militancy and sectarianism is largely due to a combination of domestic and regional grievances. Such grievances play an integral part in shaping the conditions upon which the JA has risen to challenge the Iranian state, though its success in legitimizing its operations among the local population remains unknown.

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Iran says four rebels killed in fresh Pak border clash

2013-10-30

[Dawn] Iranian security forces have killed in a fresh clash four members of an krazed killer rebel group behind an attack that left 14 Iranian border guards dead, a top border guard commander said Tuesday.

"We clashed with Jaish-ul Adl and killed four of them," the Fars news agency quoted brigadier general Hossein Zolfaqari, commander of Iran's border guards, as saying.

According to the report, the clash took place near the town of Mirjaveh, close to the border with Pakistain in restive southeast Iran, some 1,200 kilometres (745 miles) from Tehran. Zolfaqari did not say when it took place.

Jaish-ul Adl, a rebel group formed last year whose name means Army of Justice in Arabic, has grabbed credit for the bushwhack on Friday in the mountains of Sistan-Baluchestan in the restive southeast.

The attack killed 14 border guards and maimed another seven.

Iran in retaliation said it had executed 16 "rebels" -- eight gunnies and eight narcos, all of whom had been on death row, according to Iranian media.

"Whatever measure they take against us, our response will be more crushing," Zolfaqari said.

In a press briefing in the afternoon, he said that 20 "bandidos" had been killed in 67 festivities near the border since March 2013, the Mehr news agency reported.

The general also warned that Iran "reserves the right to pursue the bandidos on Pak soil," adding that his unit had informed its Pak counterparts of this, Mehr added.

Tehran has demanded Islamabad take "measures to control the borders more seriously," saying the bully boyz had crossed from Pakistain and fled back across the border after the attack.

Iran says it plans to exert more pressure on Pakistain to prevent such attacks.

"A deputy interior minister will visit Pakistain to discuss the attack," foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said Tuesday during her weekly briefing.

Another bad boy group, Jundallah, Arabic for Soldiers of God, has also launched deadly attacks on civilians and officials in the southeast.

Iran captured and hanged its leader, Abdolmalek Rigi, in June 2010.

The restive region near the Pak border is home to a large community of minority Sunni Moslems, unlike the rest of Shia-dominated Iran.

Drug traffickers and bully boyz have clashed with Iranian forces in the region on several occasions.

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Suicide Bomber Kills 2 Guards At South Iran Mosque

2012-10-20

[Jerusalem Post] Six others, including three children, injured at mosque near Pakistain border; same mosque was hit in 2010.

A jacket wallah killed two guards as he went kaboom!" outside a mosque in a restive southern province of Iran on Friday after being prevented from reaching worshippers inside, Iranian media reported.

The bomber set off his boom belt a few hundred meters (yards) outside the Imam Hossein mosque in the city of Chabahar, killing two members of the Basij militia that were on guard, Fars news agency reported.

Six others, including three children, sustained injuries in the kaboom, it said.

Chabahar is in 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...
province, near the Pak border. It has a history of unrest, with the mainly Sunni Mohammedan population complaining of discrimination at the hands of Iran's Shi'ite Mohammedan authorities.

An attack by two suicide bombers at the same mosque in 2010 killed 39 people including women and kiddies during a religious ceremony.

The Sunni rebel group Jundollah, which says it is fighting for better rights for Sunni Mohammedans in Iran, grabbed credit for that attack, which it said was in Dire Revenge™ for the execution of its leader, Abdolmalek Rigi.

The group is believed to be based in Pakistain and since 2003 has claimed a number of attacks and kidnappings inside Iranian territory.

In its most audacious attack, it targeted a meeting of Revolutionary Guards and tribal figures from Sistan-Balochistan in October 2009, killing six senior commanders and 29 others.

Iran says Jundollah has links to al Qaeda and has accused Pakistain, Britannia and the United States of supporting it to stir instability in its southeast. The three countries deny backing Jundollah.

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Iranian police kill Jundullah terrorist

2011-05-12

[Iran Press TV] Iranian security forces have killed a member of the Pakistain-based Jundullah terrorist group in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan.

The bad boy, identified as Rahmak Sohrabzehi, was killed in a well-planned police ambush in the quiet provincial capital Zahedan, located 1,120 kilometers (696 miles) southeast of the Iranian capital Tehran, on Tuesday evening, IRIB reported.

Jundallah beturbanned goons have carried out numerous deadly bombings and liquidation attempts in Iran, including several attacks in Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan Province, which borders Afghanistan and Pakistain.

On December 15, 2010, a terrorist attack in the southeastern Iranian city of Chabahar killed at least 38 people and maimed more than 90 others, including women and kiddies.

The terrorist Jundullah group later grabbed credit for the deadly kaboom.

Jundallah leader Abdolmalek Rigi was nabbed by Iranian intelligence forces in February 2010 and executed in June for 79 counts of crimes, including armed robbery, bombing operations and armed attacks on police and civilians.

Rigi stated in his confessions that he had dealings with the US government and was promised unlimited funds and resources for "waging an insurgency" in Iran.

The remnants of Jundullah terrorist group are holed up in Pakistain from where they sneak into Iran to carry out bombings and other acts of terrorism.

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Iran urges Pakistan action on Jundallah

2011-04-22

[Iran Press TV] Iran's Interior Minister the sinister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar
Interior minister of Iran and a former defense minister of Iran. He is a veteran of the Revolutionary Guards since the establishment of the body in 1980...
has urged Pakistain to utilize all its resources to dismantle the Jundallah terrorist group.

But Pakistan likes terrorist groups. And anyway, why should Pakistan do anything for those Shiite nosy parkers who are making such trouble for Pakistan's friends/clients like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain?

In a meeting with his visiting Pak counterpart Rehman Malik
Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men.
in Tehran on Thursday, Mohammad-Najjar said that Islamabad has to step up efforts to eliminate Jundallah's hideouts from its southwestern Baluchistan province near the border with Iran, two top interior ministry officials in Islamabad told a Press TV correspondent on condition of anonymity.

Malik assured his Iranian counterpart that his government has deployed extra troops in its border region to counter the terrorists' activities.

The Iranian and Pak ministers also reviewed the current situation in Pakistain-Afghanistan border.

Iran's southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, which borders Afghanistan and Pakistain, has witnessed a rise in terror activities by arms smugglers and Pak-based armed terrorist groups such as Jundallah.

Jundallah has carried out numerous bombings, liquidation attempts, and terrorist attacks in Iran's southwestern region.

Former Jundallah ringleader Abdolmalek Rigi was incarcerated by Iranian intelligence forces in February 2010 and executed in June for 79 counts of crime, including manslaughter, armed robbery, bombing operations and armed attacks on security officers and civilians.

Rigi stated in his confessions that he had dealings with the US government and was promised unlimited funds and resources for "waging an insurgency" in Iran.

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Iran Building 'Berlin Wall' Dividing Balochistan With Pakistan

2011-04-15

Iran is building a fence on its border with Pakistan to keep out terrorists, Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi has said.

The barrier is being built on "impenetrable mountainous terrain" in southeastern Iran to "prevent villains from crossing into the Islamic Republic", IRNA news agency quoted him as saying Thursday.

Members of the Iranian insurgent group Jundullah, which is based in Pakistan's Balochistan province, have reportedly been crossing into Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan province to carry out terrorist attacks.

Jundullah leader Abdolmalek Rigi was arrested by Iranian authorities in February 2010 and executed in June.
Possible game changer. The Balochis would cut up rough in Iran and escape to Pakistan, and vise versa. This will to some extent trap Pakistan's troublemakers in their part of Balochistan. With a big concentration in Quetta.

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