According to the semi-official Tasnim news agency, a female commander of the Basij paramilitary force — part of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — was shot and killed outside her home in the Mehrestan district. In a separate incident, another officer died in an attack on a police vehicle in the same district, which lies close to Iran’s border with Pakistan.
Haalvash, a rights group focusing on the region’s Baluch ethnic minority, reported that military helicopters were circling over the city of Iranshahr and that the security situation remained tense in several locations.
Sistan-Baluchestan province is home to the Chabahar port, a critical economic and military asset on Iran’s eastern flank. The area has seen a series of attacks in recent months, which the Iranian government attributes to “terrorist outfits” allegedly funded and supported from outside the country.
Last week, gunmen attacked a minibus transporting security personnel along the Makran coast, killing one person and injuring three others, according to the official IRNA news agency. IRNA also reported that “several terrorists” killed a police officer in a separate convoy attack. Earlier this month, the IRGC’s Al Quds Force said it killed at least two suspected attackers and dismantled a “terrorist cell” near Chabahar, recovering a Starlink device and a large quantity of weapons.