At the Iran-Pakistan border, a dramatic event occurred on Wednesday when the Iranian Revolutionary Guard boldly attacked two Baluchi insurgent strongholds in Pakistan. This bold action—which makes use of both drones and missiles—comes hot on the heels of Iran’s missile strikes in Syria and Iraq and denotes a significant escalation of tensions in the area.
Pakistan has issued a threat of reprisal in response to an Iranian bombing that killed two children inside its borders, denouncing it as an “unprovoked violation of its airspace.” The state-aligned Tasnim news agency of Iran reported that it had destroyed two strongholds of the Sunni terrorist organization Jaish al-Adl, also known as Jaish al-Dhulm in Iran, in the Koh-e-Sabz area of Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province, using “precision missile and drone strikes.”
Iran airstrikes in Pak were on ‘ethnic Sunni group’
Pakistani officials reported two children killed and three injured in an attack on the militant group Jaish al-Adli, which Tehran’s foreign minister described as an “Iranian terrorist group” in Pakistan. The attack occurred in Balochistan, following Iran’s recent attacks in Iraq and Syria. Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian claimed that no Pakistani citizens were targeted, but only members of Jaish al-Adl.
The attack has resulted in a notable increase of tensions in the Middle East and was directed at the ethnic Baloch Sunni Muslim group Jaish al-Adl. Iran has been pressuring Pakistan and Iran to exercise prudence and refrain from taking any steps that might cause tensions to rise. Iran has been involved in assaults against Israel and its allies. The offensive coincides with the greatest domestic assault Iran has experienced since the Islamic Revolution, after recent assaults on Syria and the northern region of Iraq held by Kurds. Pakistan has pulled back its envoy to Iran and has temporarily barred the Iranian ambassador from entering the nation.
Pakistan warns Iran of deadly “consequences”
Following Tehran’s unprecedented missile and drone assaults on terrorist sites in Pakistan‘s unrest-plagued Balochistan region, Pakistan on Wednesday threatened Iran with “serious consequences, missiles fired on two sites of the Baloch terrorist group Jaish al Adl in Pakistan, according to Iranian official media. The day before, Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards had used missiles to hit targets in Syria and Iraq.
Implications of the attack
Iran has targeted and successfully demolished two key strongholds of the Jaish al-Dhulm (Jaish al-Adl) terrorist group in Pakistan, raising tensions in the Middle East. The attack, which targeted “Green Mountain” and involved missile and drone attacks, has previously targeted Iranian security forces in the border area with Pakistan. The Foreign Office of Pakistan strongly condemned the attack, describing it as an “unprovoked violation of its airspace” by Iran. The attack killed two children and injured three others. In addition, Pakistan called the Iranian charge d’affaires to the Foreign Affairs Ministry to express its “utmost denunciation of this flagrant infringement” of national sovereignty.
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