TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- The commander of the overseas arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has warned Pakistan against being swayed away by the Saudi petrodollars and turning into a center for "annoying” Iran, India, and Afghanistan.
General Qasem Soleimani said on Thursday that each year, tens of attacks in Iran are carried out by terrorist groups stationed in Pakistan.
"They kill our people. Now, instead of offering condolences to our people, it is better for the Pakistani government to take a practical step and flush out the terrorist groups," he said.
The Iranian commander underlined that the government and army of Pakistan should not allow the Saudi petrodollars into Pakistan’s economy to create tension between Islamabad and its neighbors.
General Soleimani also warned Saudi Arabia of retaliation over a terrorist bomb attack in southeastern Iran on Feb. 13 that martyred 27 IRGC members, the Tasnim news agency reported on Thursday.
"Saudi Arabia is building its regional influence with money only. This is a false influence and a failure ... We will take revenge for our martyrs ... (and) it might be anywhere around the world,” he said.
The Islamic Republic has said Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are backing terrorists who carry out attacks inside Iran. "I am warning you: Don’t test Iran’s tolerance,” General Soleimani said.
He said Wahhabism, an extremist ideology popular in Saudi Arabia, and America are the two threats to the Middle East. He said Wahhabism has roots in Judaism and has distorted Muslim belief.
"Wahhabism has its roots in Judaism and they are called Daesh, which destroyed two Muslim countries in the region and destroyed 3,000 mosques and killed hundreds of thousands,” he said.
General Soleimani also touched on the recent visit of the Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman to Pakistan and suggested that Islamabad should not allow itself to be bribed into supporting Riyadh.  
"The government and army of Pakistan should not allow the criminal Saudi government to create tension between Islamabad and its neighbors through pumping hefty money into Pakistan’s economy.
"The main goal behind the regional tension is to destroy and divide Pakistan,” he said.
The Al-Qaeda-linked Jaish ul-Adl claimed responsibility for the attack near the border with Pakistan. Iran’s authorities say terrorist groups operate from safe havens in Pakistan and have repeatedly called on the neighboring country to crack down on them.
The IRGC’s second in commander Brigadier General Hussein Salami said on Friday Iran will definitely avenge the recent terrorist attack on IRGC forces in Sistan and Baluchestan, but the revenge will not be limited to "a bunch of terrorists".
"We cannot disclose the way in which we will respond to the terrorists, but no act will remain unanswered," he said.
"The scale of Iran's revenge is not limited to clashes with four terrorists; we rather will track the terrorists and find who they are linked to," the top general said.
"Our responses are strong, and those who receive it will get familiar with them," General Salami warned.
The top commander also slammed the "hostile" behaviors of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, but at the same time noted that such terror attacks are too trivial to undermine Iran's deterrence power.
"We seek to defeat big powers, and such incidents are too small for us."
The IRGC's chief commander earlier warned Saudi Arabia and the UAE that they could face retaliatory measures for supporting terrorists on behalf of the U.S. and the occupying regime of Israel.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi told Dunya TV Friday that Islamabad will extend all-out cooperation to Iran over the terror attack.
"We have strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Iran and we are in touch with Iran over the issue," he noted.
"I had a detailed telephonic discussion with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and we have also sent an expert level delegation to Iran which also met with the leaders of Islamic Revolution Guards Corps,” said the minister.
Qureshi said Iran and Pakistan have agreed to cooperate with each other and "we will address the Iranian concerns and remove all differences."
"We have developed an understanding to stop such attacks on border areas through a joint center for quick response.”
Former Pakistani defense secretary Naeem Khalid Lodhi said the U.S. was involved in the attack and still supported its perpetrators.
In an article entitled "the Hidden U.S. Game," published in the Urdu-language newspaper Dunya on Thursday, former Pakistani defense secretary Naeem Khalid Lodhi wrote, "I think the U.S. supports the perpetrators of the Zahedan terrorist attack.”
The former Pakistani military official, who is a fellow at Islamabad-based research center (CSCR), said the Zahedan attack was undoubtedly a covert operation aimed at creating tension between Tehran and Islamabad.
According to Lodhi, Washington has long been seeking to destabilize Pakistan, but when it failed to reach that goal it sought to destabilize the whole region in order to deflect the international community’s attention from its withdrawal from Afghanistan.