{"id":16907,"date":"2025-08-17T15:04:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T15:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=16907"},"modified":"2025-08-17T15:04:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T15:04:29","slug":"iranian-forces-kill-seven-militants-in-southeast-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=16907","title":{"rendered":"Iranian forces kill seven militants in Southeast clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Iranian security forces on Sunday killed seven members of a militant group in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy provincial governor Ali Velayatipour said the gunmen, all members of the Ansar al-Furqan group, were killed in the early hours of Sunday, according to official news agency IRNA.<\/p>\n<p>The militants &#8220;intended to attack sensitive centres and military and law enforcement bases&#8221;, Velayatipour said.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has designated Ansar al-Furqan a &#8220;terrorist&#8221; organisation. Last year, the group claimed a suicide attack that killed a police officer, also in Sistan-Baluchistan.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: Iran&#8217;s rulers face existential choice<\/p>\n<p>he province which borders Pakistan and Afghanistan is one of Iran&#8217;s poorest, and a frequent scene of clashes between security forces and Baluch minority rebels.<\/p>\n<p>It is home to a large Baloch population, most of whom are Sunni Muslims, in contrast to Iran&#8217;s Shiite majority.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, gunmen killed a police officer in a shootout in the province, with the Sunni militant group Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice) claiming responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>The group, based across the border in Pakistan, has claimed multiple attacks in recent years, including an assault on a courthouse last month that left at least six people dead.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian security forces on Sunday killed seven members of a militant group in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, state media reported. Deputy provincial governor Ali Velayatipour said the gunmen, all members of the Ansar al-Furqan group, were killed in the early hours of Sunday, according to official news agency IRNA. The militants &#8220;intended to attack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}