TEHRAN -- Six Iranian border guards were martyred Sunday during clashes with a terrorist group in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, the judiciary’s Mizan Online website quoted local prosecutor Mehdi Shamsabadi as saying.
The guards were martyred in Saravan, near Iran’s border with Pakistan. The attack was carried out by “a terrorist group that was seeking to infiltrate the country” but “fled across the border after the clash,” Fars news agency reported.
On March 11, two policemen were martyred during clashes with “criminals” in the same region, the state news agency IRNA reported at the time.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman on Sunday said Pakistan, from which the terrorists had tried to illegally enter Iran, is expected to fulfill mutual agreements on countering terrorist groups.
Kanaani urged Pakistani authorities to do more to ensure security along the joint border with Iran.
Farah Azeem Shah, the spokeswoman of the local government in Pakistan’s Balochistan, condemned the attack as she offered condolences to the Iranian government and nation.
Describing the attack as a satanic plot to damage brotherly relations between Tehran and Islamabad, she said the time has come for the governments and nations of Iran and Pakistan to send a strong message to terrorist elements.
“Such unscrupulous behavior cannot harm the friendly relations between the two neighboring countries,” the official said.
She the joint trade and development projects of Iran and Pakistan will not be affected by such acts of terrorism and the relations between the two countries will further grow in the future.