| Iran also has its trouble spots. |
"Armed turbans entered Iran from Pakistain and clashed with border guards, killing eight soldiers before fleeing back to Pakistain," Ali Asghar Mirshekari, deputy governor of 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, told the news agency.
The southeastern province has a large Sunni Moslem community and has seen repeated attacks by Death Eaters on the security forces of mainly Shiite Iran.
Sunni bully boy group Jaish-ul Adl (Army of Justice) said its fighters carried out the incursion in Negur district on Monday night, Iranian media reported.
The clash was the deadliest since October 2013 when 14 border guards were killed in an attack also claimed by Jaish-ul Adl.
Mirshekari urged Pak officials to "arrest the turbans and hand them over to Iran to prevent Pakistain from becoming a parade ground for terrorists."
There have been repeated deadly festivities in the border area. Three Iranian soldiers were killed in an ambush in December and three more in an attack in the town of Saravan in October.
Earlier on Monday, ground forces of the elite Revolutionary Guards killed three suspected Death Eaters and maimed two in an operation in two towns north of Negur, their commander said.
| Iran has spent millions of dollars building a wall along its 1,800-kilometer (1,050-mile) border with Afghanistan and Pakistain in a bid to prevent infiltration. |
The security forces have also come under attack near Iran's western border with Iraq, another region with a significant Sunni community.
Eight security personnel have been killed in the region since the Persian new year on March 21, the Fars news agency quoted deputy police chief for social affairs Brigadier General Saeid Montazer-al-Mahdi as saying on Tuesday.
"Five border guards in Sumar, Kermanshah province and also three coppers in Hamidieh, Khuzestan province have been killed," Montazer-al-Mahdi said.
Police made several arrests on Monday in connection with the Hamidieh attack, he added.
In Sistan-Balochistan, security forces also clash frequently with narcos. The province lies on a major transit route for opium and heroin being smuggled from Afghanistan and Pakistain to Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
| Ah. So it might be Sunni terrorists, or it might merely be drug smugglers. No doubt the truth of this will never be revealed to newsies, |
| Golly. All the cool kids are building walls aganst troublemakers these days. |