DUBAI (Reuters) – Two bases belonging to the Jaish al Adl insurgent group in Pakistan’s Balochistan province were targeted by missiles on Tuesday, state media in Iran reported, a day after airstrikes carried out by the elite unit of the Iranian army in Iraq and Syria.
Tensions in the region are high, as Baloch insurgents have in the past prepared attacks against Iranian security forces on the Iran-Pakistan border.
“These bases were struck and destroyed by missiles as well as drones,” said the official press in Tehran, without further details.
Referring to the attacks in Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan on Monday, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards declared earlier in the day that they were acting to defend the sovereignty and security of Iran, ensuring that they had notably targeted an Israeli spy center.
The Iranian strikes fuel fears of an escalation of the conflict in the Middle East in the wake of the fighting in the Gaza Strip, shelled for more than three months by Israel, Tehran’s sworn enemy, which has long supported Palestinian Hamas while by denying having played a role in the October 7 attack in the south of the Jewish state.
(Written by Parisa Hafezi in Dubai; French version Jean Terzian)
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