{"id":1685,"date":"2024-01-17T09:09:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T09:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2024-01-17T09:09:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T09:09:02","slug":"going-rogue-iran-bombs-a-base-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/en\/going-rogue-iran-bombs-a-base-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Rogue? Iran Bombs a base in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Iran on Tuesday launched missile and drone attacks against the Pakistan-based headquarters of a militant group opposed to Tehran, Iran\u2019s Tasnim news agency reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tasnim said two \u201cimportant headquarters\u201d of Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice) in Pakistan were \u201cdestroyed.\u201d The agency said the strikes were concentrated in an area in Pakistan\u2019s southwestern Balochistan province where \u201cone of the largest headquarters\u201d of Jaish al-Adl was situated.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pakistani government has yet to comment on the reported Iranian attacks on its soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The attacks came a day after Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched missiles into Iraq\u2019s Kurdistan region at what it called an Israeli \u201cspy headquarters,\u201d and at alleged ISIS-linked targets in Syria.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jaish al-Adl, formed in 2012 and labeled as a \u201cterrorist\u201d organization by Tehran, is a Sunni militant group that operates in Iran\u2019s restive southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The group claims to advocate for greater rights and improved living conditions for ethnic Baluchis in Iran and has launched numerous attacks on Iranian security forces over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, Jaish al-Adl claimed responsibility for an attack on a police station in Sistan-Baluchistan that killed at least 11 Iranian policemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sistan-Baluchistan borders Afghanistan and Pakistan and has a history of clashes between Iran\u2019s security forces and Sunni militants, as well as drug smugglers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The province is one of Iran\u2019s poorest regions and is mostly populated by Sunni ethnic Baluchis, a minority in predominantly Shia Iran.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran on Tuesday launched missile and drone attacks against the Pakistan-based headquarters of a militant group opposed to Tehran, Iran\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}