ALBAWABA - Three security officers, including a police station deputy, were killed in "terrorist attacks" in Iran, state television claimed Thursday, just two days after seven Iranian Revolutionary Guards were killed in an air raid in Syria.
"Three security members have been martyred in several night-time terrorist attacks on military stations in the cities of Rask and Chabahar" in southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan province, said Alireza Marhamati, the region's deputy governor, on state TV.
"In one of the attacks on police station number 11 of the city of Chabahar, deputy of the station Abbas Mir, was martyred," state broadcaster IRIB said, adding that a number of assailants were also killed or injured.
It further stated that the jihadist Jaish al-Adl group, which was founded in 2012 and is blacklisted by Iran as a "terrorist" outfit, claimed responsibility for the attacks.
The attacks happened less than 48 hours after an airstrike on the Iranian consulate annex in Damascus killed seven Revolutionary Guards, including two generals.
"The terrorists failed to capture the Guards headquarters in Chabahar and Rask and are now under siege," said Deputy Interior Minister Majid Mirahmadi on state television.
"The terrorists are stationed around these headquarters and are shooting blindly, with the courageous members of the Guards and the police confronting them," he went on to say.
In December, 11 officers were killed at Rask's police headquarters in one of the worst attacks in years. Last July, two police officers and four gunmen were killed in another attack on a police station in Zahedan, the province's capital.
Zahedan, one of the few Sunni-majority cities in Iran, was also the site of months-long demonstrations in September 2022 following the alleged rape of a teenage girl by a police officer.
The tragic clashes in the city came as Iran faced widespread protests over the death in detention of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurd arrested for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic's strict clothing regulations for women.
