DUBAI: Two police officers and four attackers were killed on Saturday when gunmen and suicide bombers stormed a police station in the mostly Sunni city of Zahedan in Iran‘s restive southeast, state television reported.
Zahedan, capital of Sistan-Baluchistan province, was scene of some of the bloodiest protests during a wave of nationwide unrest last year triggered by the death of a young Kurdish woman in the custody of the morality police. A militant group operating in the area called Jaish al-Adl, or Army of Justice, claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attack in a social media post, saying it was in retaliation for the deaths of protesters killed by security forces on September 30, 2022.
It said the police station targeted was “one of the main perpetrators of the Bloody Friday calamity in Zahedan”.
Iran state television said that “all four terrorists” had died in the raid.
Zahedan, capital of Sistan-Baluchistan province, was scene of some of the bloodiest protests during a wave of nationwide unrest last year triggered by the death of a young Kurdish woman in the custody of the morality police. A militant group operating in the area called Jaish al-Adl, or Army of Justice, claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attack in a social media post, saying it was in retaliation for the deaths of protesters killed by security forces on September 30, 2022.
It said the police station targeted was “one of the main perpetrators of the Bloody Friday calamity in Zahedan”.
Iran state television said that “all four terrorists” had died in the raid.