TEHRAN: Iran’s foreign ministry stressed that it would not allow its enemies to strain its “amicable and brotherly relations” with Islamabad following Pakistan’s retaliatory strikes over an airspace violation by Tehran.
Pakistan struck terrorist hideouts in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province earlier today, less than 48 hours after Iran violated its airspace.
According to a statement issued by the military’s media affairs wing, “hideouts used by terrorist organisations namely Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and Balochistan Liberation
Front (BLF)” were struck in an intelligence-based operation code-named ‘Operation Marg Bar Sarmachar’.
Meanwhile, Iran’s IRNA news agency reported that nine people were killed in the attack targeting a village in the city of Saravan, with Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi saying all the dead “were foreign nationals”.
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