TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's deputy interior minister will soon visit Islamabad to discuss the case of a group of terrorists who have fled to Pakistan after killing 14 Iranian border guards in a terrorist attack early on Saturday.The deputy interior minister will visit Pakistan in the near future, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham said in her weekly press conference in Tehran on Tuesday.
We want identification of these terrorists and urge the Pakistani government to pursue the case in order to identify and extradite the culprits to the Islamic Republic based on the Memorandum of Understanding (signed by the two countries several years ago), she added.
In relevant remarks on Sunday night, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif lambasted the terrorist attack in Southeastern Iran, and warned of the rapid spread of extremism in the region.
This point should be receive attention that the painful incident in Saravan (in Sistan and Baouchestan province, Southeastern Iran) was an instance of the results of the spread of extremism in the region, Zarif wrote on his Facebook page.
Extremism and terrorism know no borders and in today's world security is an integrated phenomenon and therefore we should help to the establishment of security in the region to maintain security of our own country, he added.
Zarif referred to the recent terrorist attack in Southeastern Iran, and said he will discuss the issue with his Pakistani counterpart on the phone on Monday morning because the terrorists have fled to Pakistan due to the lax security measures in the neighboring country.
14 Iranian border guards were killed and 6 more were injured during the terrorist attack in Saravan border region in Southeastern Iran in the early hours of Saturday morning. The terrorists who have reportedly been members of the outlawed Jeish Al-Adl radical Sunni Wahhabi movement affiliated to the terrorist Jundollah group fled into Pakistan after the operation in Iran's Southeastern Sistan and Balouchestan province.
There has yet been no information about any casualty on the side of the outlaws.
The Jundollah group has built a safe haven in Pakistan and it escaped to this Eastern neighbor of the Islamic Republic each time it staged a terrorist operation in Iran before it was disbanded and its leaders were arrested and executed.
In one of its last operations in Iran, the Pakistani-based Jundollah terrorist group claimed responsibility for December 15, 2010 attack at the Imam Hussein Mosque in Iran's Southeastern port city of Chabahar in Sistan and Balouchestan Province where people were commemorating the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (PBUH), the third Shiite Imam.
At least 38 mourners were killed and more than 89 others, including women and children, were injured in the attack.
The Jundollah group has claimed responsibility for numerous terrorist attacks in Iran. The group has carried out mass murder, armed robbery, kidnapping, acts of sabotage and bombings. They have targeted civilians and government officials as well as all ranks of Iran's military.
In one of the worst cases, the terrorist group killed 22 citizens and abducted 7 more in the Tasouki region on a road linking the southeastern city of Zahedan to another provincial town.
In 2007, Jundollah kidnapped 30 people in the Sistan and Balouchestan province and took them to the neighboring Pakistan.
Jundollah claimed responsibility the same year for an attack on an Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) bus in which 11 IRGC personnel were killed.
In another crime in October 2009, the Pakistan-based terrorist Jundollah group claimed responsibility for a deadly attack in the Sistan and Balouchestan province which killed 42 people among them a group of senior military commanders, including Lieutenant Commander of the IRGC Ground Force Brigadier General Nourali Shoushtari.
By Fars News Agency
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