Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
a "terrorist cell" accused of killing teachers in a flashpoint border area and detained in a separate incident three Afghans planning to fight in Iraq, media reported Monday.
An undisclosed number of cell members were caught near Sarbaz in the southeast, said a statement from Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) published by the official IRNA news agency.
The report did not give the date of the operation but said those detained had "committed a series of terrorist attacks, including the killing of teachers and Basij (Islamic militia volunteers)."
Sarbaz is in Sistan-Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
province, which borders Pakistain and has a large Sunni community. It is plagued by violence involving Sunni holy warriors and drug smugglers.
Iran accuses members of the Sunni Death Eater group Jaish-ul Adl (Army of Justice) of carrying out frequent raids.
Three Iranian soldiers were killed last week in Sistan-Balochistan in an ambush by rebels who then fled into Pakistain.
In a separate incident, three Afghan nationals carrying explosives were arrested by border police close to Iraq, said the semi-official Fars news agency, considered close to the IRGC.
They crossed into Iran and intended to join the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group in Iraq when they were detained, Brigadier General Qassem Rezayee of the Border Force told Fars.