🔻Reports of clashes between security forces and “armed individuals” in Saravan

Iranian media, citing local sources, report clashes between security forces and armed individuals in Bakhshan Saravan in Sistan and Baluchestan province. In these reports, it is said that security and police forces raided a team house.

Ali Khalil-Abadi, the security and law enforcement deputy of the governor of Sistan and Baluchestan, has described these individuals as “one of the terrorist and hostile groups,” but he did not provide further details.

According to him, this operation is still

Saravan is located 360 kilometers southeast of Zahedan, the center of Sistan and Baluchestan.

Security officials in Sistan and Baluchestan said last Monday that three organized and operational cells affiliated with what they called “the takfiri groups supported by the United States and Israel” had been identified and “disrupted” before any action in border areas. According to these officials, when the members of these cells entered the border, they were “tracked,” and the security forces neutralized them before they could carry out their operation.