Tensions continue to escalate in the Middle East. On Wednesday, the Pakistani government reported that Iranian forces had entered its airspace. According to the reports, Iran carried out airstrikes against Pakistani territory overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, as it did in Syria and Iraq. According to the Pakistani government, the Iranian attacks killed two minors.
On Tuesday, the Iranian Islamist regime confirmed that it attacked positions of its "anti-Iran terrorist" enemies in Syria and Iraq, in an attack that occurred near U.S. positions near the city of Erbil, which is the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq which Iran accuses of collaborating closely with the Israeli Mossad.
From Islamabad, Pakistan, a statement said that Iran's attack near the shared border between both countries is "completely unacceptable and may have serious consequences." As a direct result of this, Islamabad withdrew its ambassador from Tehran and expelled the Iranian diplomatic envoy from its territory indefinitely.
In Iran, the news agency affiliated with the Islamist regime, Mehrnews, reported that the attack with "missiles and drones" targeted the positions in Pakistan of the jihadist group Jaish al-Adl. The agency called the attacks "one more decisive step taken by Iran in response to the aggression against the security of our country."
Iran denies Pakistan's version of the story
In statements made on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Iranian Foreign Minister Hosein Amir Abdollahian confirmed the information from the Mehrnews agency, but also denied the Pakistani account that two minors had died as a result of the attack.
"None of the citizens of the friendly and brotherly country of Pakistan were targeted by Iranian missiles and drones," Abdollahian told AFP in Davos. "The so-called Jaish al-Adl group, which is an Iranian terrorist group, was the target," he added.
1/2_Amir Abdullahian, confirmó el ataque a las posiciones de los terroristas iraníes en Pakistán y señaló los siguientes puntos:Ninguno de los ciudadanos paquistaníes fue atacado por misiles y drones iraníes.Apuntamos al grupo Jaish-ul-Adl, no a ciudadanos paquistaníes. pic.twitter.com/S0psuDNoN6
— 🇮🇷Rah_masood1979🇮🇷 (@RahMasood1400) January 17, 2024
Jaish al-Adl is a terrorist group of Iranian origin that operates from the border with Pakistan. The group is associated with the Sunni Salafist ideology, the branch of Islam opposed to the predominant Shiism in Iran. In December 2023, they took responsibility for an attack against a police station in Rask, a city in eastern Iran, which left 11 dead.
