Rebels simultaneously attack Iranian base
The separatist militant group Jaish al-Adl attacked a series of bases of Iranian military and security forces in the south of the country, killing at least three people.
"Three security personnel were killed in a series of overnight terrorist attacks targeting military bases and police stations in the cities of Rask and Chabahar," Alireza Marhamati, deputy governor of Sistan-Baluchistan, told Iranian state television on the night of April 3.
Iran's IRIB broadcaster said one of the dead was the deputy head of Chabahar's police station. Jaish al-Adl, an armed separatist group in the Sistan-Baluchistan region and listed as a terrorist by Iran, claimed responsibility for the series of attacks, according to IRIB.
Iranian Deputy Interior Minister Majid Mirahmadi said the rebels' goal was to seize the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) headquarters in two cities. "Terrorist groups have failed and are under siege. They held out in positions around the two command posts and opened fire indiscriminately. The IRGC and the police are responding bravely," he said.
Turkey's Anadolu news agency, citing local sources, said Iranian security forces may have suffered more casualties. Images released on social media by the militant group Jaish al-Adl showed its members infiltrating and blowing up an IRGC weapons depot.
Iran International, a British-based Iran news site, said rebels also staged ambushes on roads, preventing security forces from pursuing. By dawn on April 4, fighting continued in the city of Chabahar
In 2019, Jaish al-Adl admitted to being behind a suicide bombing targeting a troop bus in Sistan-Baluchestan that killed at least 23 people. In an attack that killed 8 Iranian border guards in 2015, Tehran accused Jaish al-Adl members of infiltrating from Pakistan
