TEHRAN: A local commander in Iran’s paramilitary Basij force was killed on Tuesday in a “terrorist attack” in the country’s restive southeast, local media reported.
Abdolraouf Eshaghi, a commander in the Parud district of Sistan-Baluchistan province, had been “martyred”, Tasnim news agency said, without providing details.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack.
On Monday, Iranian authorities had said three people were killed and nine arrested during a raid in the province on hideouts of Islamist groups affiliated with Israel and the United States.
Sistan-Baluchistan, which borders Pakistan and Afghanistan, has long seen clashes between Iranian security forces, insurgents and drug smugglers.
One of Iran’s poorest provinces, it is home to a sizeable ethnic Baloch population, most of whom are Sunni Muslims in a Shia-majority nation.
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