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Several Iranian police officers were reportedly killed or wounded late on December 14 when Separatists attacked a police checkpoint in the district of Rask County in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan.
Brigadier General Saeed Montazer al-Mahdi, a spokesman for Iranian Police, told the Iranian media that 12 police officers were killed and seven others were wounded in the attack. The spokesman noted that the police commander of Sistan and Baluchistan is in Rask County and the situation there is under control.
A number of the attackers were also killed or wounded during the clashes in the district, according to the Sistan and Baluchestan Police.
Initially, Deputy Governor-General of Sistan and Baluchestan province, Alireza Marhamati, said that at least 11 Iranian police officers were killed in the attack
Iranian state TV blamed the attack on Jaish al-Adl, a separatist armed group. In 2019, Jaish al-Adl claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing on a bus that killed 27 members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
In recent months, terrorists, criminals and small separatist armed groups in the predominantly Sunni Sistan and Baluchestan have attacked police stations and checkpoints as part of a low-level insurgency against the Iranian government.
