Pakistan launched an attack on suspected insurgent groups on Iranian soil this morning. already left nine people dead, indicated by the Iranian government.

“Three women, four children and two men of foreign citizenship were killed. in the city, located three to four kilometers from the Iranian border, Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi said in a statement to the official IRNA news agency.

The Pakistani Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Several terrorists were killed during the explosions. it shook rebel hideouts in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan provinces.

According to the report, there were “due to inaction” of Iran stop insurgency.

In response, the Iranian government This morning he summoned the Charge d’Affaires of Pakistan. ask for an explanation about the attacks.

These attacks come after Iran attacked last Tuesday missiles and drones fired at two bases of the Sunni terrorist group Yeish al-Adl in Pakistan, which killed two children, according to Islamabad, which warned of “grave consequences.”

Yeish al-Adl is a Sunni group opposed to the Shiite regime in Iran. which seeks independence for the provinces of Sistan and Baluchistan, which operate on the porous border between both countries.

In response, the Pakistani government called her ambassador in Tehran for consultations and announced the suspension of all high-level visits to Iran, while asking the Persian country to recall its ambassador to Islamabad.

Who are the rebel groups in the midst of the crisis between Iran and Pakistan?

A Sunni extremist group opposed to Tehran’s Shiite government and two separatist armed groups demanding greater autonomy for Pakistan’s Balochistan province have been targeted in air attacks that have sparked The biggest diplomatic crisis in recent times between Islamabad and Tehran.

Banned by respective governments, These three groups have been carrying out attacks in Iran and Pakistan for more than a decade.taking advantage of the porous border between both countries, while Tehran and Islamabad blame each other for not doing enough to stop rebel activity.

Yeish al Adl

Yeish al Adl (Army of Justice) is a Sunni extremist group. against the Shiite government in Tehran, which was founded in 2012 as a splinter from the Yundula organization following the execution of its leader Abdolmalek Riga in 2010.

According to them, the first attack was murder of ten members of the Revolutionary Guard in the troubled provinces of Sistan and Baluchestan in August 2012.

Since then, he has carried out numerous attacks on Iranian soil.mainly in this province adjacent to Pakistan and Afghanistan, against the country’s security forces, as well as against prosecutors and other senior officials.

Yeish al-Adl seeks independence for Sistan and Baluchistan. home to the Baloch ethnic minority, most of whom oppose the Sunni branch of Islam to the country’s official Shiism.

The group operates on a porous border with Pakistan, a country that Tehran says is doesn’t do enough to stop their activities.

One of his last attacks was against Rusk City Police Department in Sistan and Baluchistan, where eleven police officers were killed.

This attack was one of the reasons Iran cited on Tuesday attacked the positions of Jaysh al-Adla in Pakistan, triggering the current diplomatic crisis between both countries.

Balochistan Liberation Army

The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), founded in 2000, is the most prominent of a number of separatist groups operating in the province of Balochistanin southwest Pakistan.

Rebel formation claimed responsibility for numerous attacks against security forces, government members and foreign workers, especially the large Chinese community present in the region.

A group banned by Islamabad since 2006 and considered terrorist by the United States since 2019. demands greater autonomy for Balochistan, the largest province in the country but the smallest in population, while condemning Islamabad’s unfair exploitation of its natural resources.

Apart from attacks on Pakistani security forces, which it is demanding to withdraw from the region, the BLA has intensified its attacks on Chinese citizens and institutions in the country since the launch of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in over $60 billion in 2013.

Thus, the group attacked the Chinese consulate in Karachi. in November 2018 in an attack that killed seven people, including three assailants, and carried out selective attacks on the country’s Chinese population.

UAV also stated that attack on the Pakistan Stock Exchange building in 2020 which killed four people, and in April 2022 he claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Karachi that killed three Chinese teachers and their Pakistani driver.

The group is currently led by Bashir Zaib. about whom little information is known, and succeeded Aslam Balukh in this post after he was killed in a terrorist attack allegedly linked to Pakistani intelligence on December 25, 2018 in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan.

Baloch Liberation Front

The Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) was founded in the 1960s. surfaced in 2004 after Allah Nazar, who had previously headed the student organization, took over the leadership.

The same year the group reappeared in public when claimed responsibility for the attack that killed three Chinese workers who worked on Pakistan’s mega development project in Balochistan.

The group has since taken responsibility for attacks on civilians, politicians, government officials and military personnel.

In 2015, armed men 20 construction workers killed in Balochistan after an incident reported by the BLF determined that they were not local residents.

In January 2022, there was another attack by this formation on a Pakistan Army post in the Kech area. It claimed the lives of ten soldiers.

(according to information from EFE)