TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- Two members of Iran's security services have been martyred in a clash with a terrorist group in the country's southeast, IRNA news agency reported on Sunday.
A member of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) and a Basij fighter were martyred after a firefight which took place late on Saturday in Saravan county of Sistan-Baluchistan province, it said.
The two martyrs were identified as IRGC commando Mohsen Naqibi and local Basij member Abdolkhalegh Derazehi.
Sistan-Baluchistan has long been a flashpoint, where Pakistan-based terrorists carry out cross-border raids.
The terrorist outfit Jaish al-Adl, which is inspired by the Takfiri ideology based in Saudi Arabia and linked to Al-Qaeda, has in the past attacked and abducted Iranian security personnel and civilians.
The most recent attack martyred 27 Guards in a 13 February terrorist car bombing which targeted a busload of the unit in the region.
Jaish al-Adl was formed in 2012 as a successor to the terrorist Jundallah band, which waged hit-and-run attacks for a decade before it was severely weakened by the capture and execution of its ringleader, Abdolmalek Rigi, in 2010.
Iranian authorities say terrorist groups operate from safe havens in Pakistan and have repeatedly called on the neighboring country to crack down on them.
In May, Pakistan started fencing its 950-kilometer-long border with Iran in an effort to strengthen security in the area.