TEHRAN -- Iranian security forces have captured terrorists responsible for the assassination of a female police officer in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, a police spokesman said Monday, as a senior lawmaker warned that foreign countries backing militant groups would face consequences.
Saeed Montazerolmahdi said intelligence forces cooperated with the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Organization to capture the terrorists who martyred Nosrat Eftekhari, the provincial police department’s deputy for cultural and social affairs. 
Eftekhari was travelling to a village in Sistan and Baluchestan when she was martyred by explosives.
Montazerolmahdi said the arrested men are members of the so-called Jaish al-Adl terrorist group and that they wounded two of Eftekhari’s colleagues. He said they were planning to attack multiple law enforcement facilities, using civilian markets and buildings as cover.
On Sunday, several other members of the terrorist group were captured in a separate joint operation. Security forces discovered the group’s safe house in Chabahar, where they found weapons and ammunition.
Ebrahim Azizi, head of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said the 1,300-kilometre border shared with Pakistan and Afghanistan has created security challenges. 
He said the “counter-revolution operations room” has shifted toward a hybrid war with support from certain regional countries and currents aligned with Iran’s enemies.
“This is not an intelligence analysis, this is an intelligence document,” Azizi said. 
“In our meetings with relevant officials, it was completely clear that the groups that had been based in these two countries for many years carried out actions with the support of some countries.”
Azizi said the IRGC Ground Forces’ Quds Base, the Army, and the Police Command have taken decisive measures, and that border closure and smart border technologies are now priorities. 
“The Americans should know, some regional countries should know, that all the intelligence documents exist,” he said.