Sunni Muslim terrorists attack IRGC base in Iran, 27 killed
State media reported that in southeastern Iran, suspected Sunni Muslim militants conducted two separate attacks on military installations, resulting in the deaths of at least 5.
Suspected Sunni Muslim terrorists killed at least 11 Iranian security officers and suffered 16 fatalities in attacks on Iran's Revolutionary Guards headquarters in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, state media said on Thursday.
The attacks by terrorists from the Jaish al-Adl group took place overnight and targeted Iranian Revolutionary Guards headquarters in Rask and Chabahar, located in the Sistan and Baluchistan provinces, the reports said.
At least eight terrorists were killed during exchanges of fire with security forces, the media reports said.
"The terrorists failed to succeed in achieving their goal of seizing the Guards headquarters in Chabahar and Rask," Deputy Interior Minister Majid Mirahmadi told state TV.
State TV said ten other security officers were also injured in the fighting in the impoverished region, which has a predominantly Sunni Muslim population.
IRGC guards, headquarters targeted
Jaish al-Adl is an extremist Sunni Muslim terror group that operates in southeastern Iran and the western Pakistani province of Balochistan.
In January, Iran targeted two bases of the terrorist group in Pakistan with missiles, prompting a rapid military riposte from Islamabad targeting what it said were separatist terrorists in Iran.
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