Balochistan: One IRGC member killed five wounded in Nek Shahr attack, Jaish al-Adl accept responsibility

BW Web Desk:  One member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards was killed and five were wounded in an attack on a base in Iranian occupied Baluchistan’s Nek Shahr city on Saturday, Iranian media reported.

The attack happened as Iran holds official celebrations on the 40th anniversary of its Islamic Revolution.

“A Basij base in Nek Shahr came under fire this morning and several from the Revolutionary Guards communications personnel who were wiring the base were hit,” Mohammad Hadi Marashi, provincial deputy governor for security affairs, told the state news agency IRNA.

“Five of the Guards personnel were wounded and one was martyred,” Marashi said, adding that anniversary events were proceeding peacefully.

The semi-official news agency Tasnim said Jaish al-Adl, a Sunni militant group, has claimed responsibility for the attack.

On Tuesday, Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice) also claimed responsibility for two bombings that wounded three police officers in front of a police station in the city of Zahedan, capital of Sistan-Baluchistan province.

Iran began on Friday ten days of state-sponsored celebrations marking the 1979 Islamic Revolution which deposed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, a secular king allied to the West.

U.S. President Donald Trump last year pulled out of an international agreement under which Iran curbed its nuclear work in exchange for a sanctions relief. The re-imposed sanctions led to a currency crash, rampant inflation and added to investors’ hesitancy about doing business there.

Courtesy: Reuters UK