Mossad, CIA Supporting Terrorists against Iran, Pakistan

FNA

TEHRAN - Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar underlined that the US and Israeli spy agencies equip the anti-Iran terrorist cells based in Pakistan.

Speaking to reporters here in Tehran on Tuesday, Najjar said that a group of terrorists who are based in Pakistan and commute across the border to stage terrorist operations against Iran "are equipped by Mossad and the CIA".

"Iran has asked the Pakistani government to rapidly extradite these criminals (to Iran) and stop their activities on Pakistan's soil," Najjar noted.

"We hope that the Pakistani government fulfills its pledges and hands them over to Iran," the Iranian minister stated.

Elsewhere, Najjar announced that Iranian security forces have already arrested a number of elements behind the recent bombing in Iran's Southeastern port city of Chabahar, and underlined that the country would punish the main terrorists behind the attack soon.

At least 38 people, including women and children, were killed and 95 others were wounded in a suicide bomb blast in Chabahar on December 15.

The attack took place outside Imam Hossein Mosque in the port city of Chabahar, in Sistan and Balouchestan province, near the border with Pakistan.

The Pakistani-based Jundollah terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

The Jundollah group has claimed responsibility for numerous terrorist attacks in Iran. The group has carried out mass murder, armed robbery, kidnapping, acts of sabotage and bombings. They have targeted civilians and government officials as well as all ranks of Iran's military.

In one of the worst cases, the terrorist group killed 22 citizens and abducted 7 more in the Tasouki region on a road linking the southeastern city of Zahedan to another provincial town.

In 2007, Jundollah kidnapped 30 people in the Sistan and Balouchestan province and took them to the neighboring Pakistan.

Jundollah claimed responsibility the same year for an attack on an Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) bus in which 11 IRGC personnel were killed.

In another crime in October 2009, the Pakistan-based terrorist Jundollah group claimed responsibility for a deadly attack in the Sistan and Balouchestan province, which killed 42 people among them a group of senior military commanders, including Lieutenant Commander of the IRGC Ground Force Brigadier General Nourali Shoushtari.