Iran attack didn’t target Pakistani nationals, but Iranian terrorists: FM Amir-Abdollahian
Iran’s foreign minister says the country’s Tuesday missile attack on areas in Pakistan adjacent to Iranian borders was directed at the so-called Jaish al-Adl terrorist group and no Pakistani national was targeted.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said members of the terrorist group are Iranians who have taken shelters in Pakistan and that Tehran had repeatedly warned Islamabad to prevent their anti-Iran cross-border operations.
“None of the nationals of the friendly and brotherly country of Pakistan were targeted by Iranian missiles and drones,” he said.
“The so-called Jaish al-Adl group, which is an Iranian terrorist group, was targeted,” he said, adding that this was a response to the recent attacks on Iran by the group, which he said is linked to Israel.
Jaish al-Adl, which was formed in 2012, has carried out several attacks on Iranian soil in recent years.
The group claimed responsibility for an attack in December on a police station in the southeastern city of Rask that killed at least 11 Iranian police officers. On January 10, another attack by the group on a police station in the city killed a policeman.
On Tuesday, Iran launched simultaneous drone and missile attacks into two bases of Jaish al-Adl.
The strike came after Iran launched missile attacks on spy headquarters and terrorist targets in Syria, and in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region.
