At least two security officials killed near Iran’s critical Chabahar port

Iran says ‘terrorist groups’ supported from outside the country are targeting security forces.

A group of Iranian border guards at Iran border with Pakistan and Afghanistan near Zabol, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran [File: Vahid Salemi/AP]

At least two Iranian security personnel have been killed in separate incidents along the country’s eastern border with Pakistan, adding to a string of attacks near the critical Chabahar port over the past few weeks.

An officer commanding a women’s unit in Iran’s Basij paramilitary force – part of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IGRC) – has been shot and killed outside her home in the Mehrestan district of Sistan-Baluchestan province on Wednesday, according to Tasnim news agency.

Another officer was killed in a separate attack on a police vehicle, also in Mehrestan, which lies close to Iran’s border with Pakistan.

On Wednesday, Haalvash, a rights group focusing on the region’s Baluch ethnic minority in the province, said military helicopters were circling over the city of Iranshahr, adding that the security situation remained tense in several locations.

Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province houses the critical Chabahar port on the country’s eastern flank, where US forces carried out air strikes targeting infrastructure and naval control facilities in July.

Map of Sistan-Baluchestan, Iran

In recent months, the region has seen multiple attacks staged by groups that Iran’s government says are “terrorist outfits” being funded and supported from outside the country.

Last week, gunmen killed one person and injured three others while attacking a minibus transporting security personnel from a division stationed along the Makran coast, according to the official IRNA news agency.

In a separate incident, IRNA reported that “several terrorists” killed a police officer after attacking a convoy patrolling the area.

Earlier this month, IRGC’s Al Quds Force said it killed at least two suspected attackers and destroyed an alleged “terrorist cell” in an operation near Chabahar port.

The IRGC statement said it had launched the operation after the group killed a member of Iran’s security forces at a checkpoint near the city of Rasak.

IRGC said it had recovered a Starlink device, along with a large quantity of weapons, in the group’s mountainous hideout.

伊朗称，受境外支持的“恐怖组织”正在袭击安全部队。

伊朗锡斯坦-俾路支斯坦省扎博勒附近，伊朗与巴基斯坦和阿富汗接壤的边境，一群伊朗边防警卫。[图片：Vahid Salemi/AP]

至少两名伊朗安全人员在该国东部与巴基斯坦接壤的边境地区发生的独立事件中丧生，此前几周，重要的恰巴哈尔港附近已发生一系列袭击事件。

据塔斯尼姆通讯社报道，周三，伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队（IGRC）下属的巴斯基民兵组织一名女子部队指挥官在锡斯坦-俾路支斯坦省梅赫雷斯坦区的家门外遭枪击身亡。

在靠近伊朗与巴基斯坦边境的梅赫雷斯坦省，另一起针对警车的袭击事件中，一名警官丧生。

周三，关注该省俾路支少数民族人权组织的哈尔瓦什表示，军用直升机正在伊兰沙赫尔市上空盘旋，并补充说，多个地区的安全局势仍然紧张。

伊朗锡斯坦-俾路支斯坦省拥有该国东部的重要港口恰巴哈尔港，美军于 7 月对该地区进行了空袭，目标是基础设施和海军控制设施。

伊朗锡斯坦-俾路支斯坦省地图

近几个月来，该地区发生了多起袭击事件，伊朗政府称这些袭击事件是由境外资金和支持的“恐怖组织”所为。

据伊朗官方通讯社伊通社报道，上周，枪手袭击了一辆运送驻扎在马克兰海岸附近一个安全部队人员的小巴，造成一人死亡，三人受伤。

另据伊朗伊斯兰共和国通讯社（IRNA）报道，在另一起事件中，“几名恐怖分子”袭击了一支在该地区巡逻的车队，并杀害了一名警察。

本月初，伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队圣城旅表示，在恰巴哈尔港附近的一次行动中，他们击毙了至少两名疑似袭击者，并摧毁了一个所谓的“恐怖分子小组”。

伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队发表声明称，此前该组织在拉萨克市附近的一个检查站杀害了一名伊朗安全部队成员，随后伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队发动了此次行动。

伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队称，他们在该组织的山区藏身处缴获了一台星链设备以及大量武器。