The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a claim of responsibility from a Sunni militant group known as "Jondollah" ("The Army of God") for the October 18 suicide bombing attack on a delegation of senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard officers in the southeast corner of the country near the border with Pakistan.
According to the communiqué, "one of the heroic men of Baluchistan-the land of martyrdom and resistance-named Abdulwahad Mahmadi Sarawani, was able to kill dozens of commanders and units from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Basij Militia, and officials from the Ministry of Intelligence... by carrying a martyrdom operation in Sarbaz, one of the cities in Baluchistan Province."
The statement indicated that the bombing attack was a response to the "crimes of the Iranian regime against the Baluchi people; the unarmed and oppressed, who loses everyday a number of its children sacrifices to the crimes of this regime that murdered throughout the last year alone hundreds of young men from this province... amongst them were the pious Ulama Hafidh Salahadin and Mawlawi Khalilallah Zare'i-who were executed for defending the rights of our oppressed people. Additionally, they executed the brothers Tariq and Asad Wafa'i, and three others from the city, and those are: Thabihalla Naro'i, Hajji Noti Zahi, and Ghulam Rasul Shaho Zahi, and all of those were guilty of Baluchi and Sunni. These crimes left to the Baluchi people no other choice except resistance and responding in the same manner to the Iranian regime."
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