{"id":24843,"date":"2018-12-09T14:22:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T14:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24843"},"modified":"2018-12-09T14:22:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T14:22:11","slug":"iran-arrests-10-suspects-in-suicide-bombing-that-killed-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24843","title":{"rendered":"Iran arrests 10 suspects in suicide bombing that killed two"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iranian security forces have detained 10 people suspected of links to a suicide car bomb attack<\/a> that killed at least two policemen earlier this week, police chief Hossein Ashtari said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Good clues have been obtained and hopefully with the public’s cooperation … we will get to the main leads,” Ashtari was quoted by the state news agency IRNA as saying on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

More suspects have been identified and are being sought, Ashtari added.<\/p>\n

At least 48 people were also wounded in Thursday’s attack by a armed group on the police headquarters in the port city of Chabahar in southeast Iran<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While suicide bombings are rare in Iran, armed groups have carried out several attacks on security forces in recent years in Sistan-Baluchestan province, where Chabahar is located.<\/p>\n

The province is home to a Sunni minority in the largely Shia country and has also long been plagued by violence from both drug smugglers and separatists.<\/p>\n

The US-based SITE Intelligence Group and Iranian state media reported that Sunni armed group Ansar al-Furqan claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sunni group Ansar al-Furqan claims responsibility for suicide bombing at police HQ in port city of #Chabahar<\/a> #Iran<\/a>, a major regional trade hub near the border of Pakistan. A relatively rare event from a group that remains inactive for stretches of time. https:\/\/t.co\/tBTKQ0bfv6<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/9cdlto2oqU<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Rita Katz (@Rita_Katz) December 6, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Security in border areas<\/h2>\n

Iran has stepped up security in border areas after gunmen in September opened fire on a military parade<\/a> in Iran’s southwestern city of Ahvaz, killing 25 people, almost half members of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.<\/p>\n

The southeastern port city in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province is located near the border with Pakistan. The city hosts the operation of a joint port project between Iran and India by the Gulf of Oman.<\/p>\n

Chabahar Port, which is being developed with funding from India, has been described as India’s “golden gateway” that will help boost trade links to land-locked Afghanistan and Central Asia, while bypassing its regional rival, Pakistan.<\/p>\n

In December 2010, at least 41 people were killed and 90 others wounded<\/a> following a suicide attack near a mosque in Chabahar.<\/p>\n

Another coordinated assault by fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant<\/a> (ISIL) group on June 7, 2017, targeted the parliament in Tehran and the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini<\/a>, the leader of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, killing at least 18 people and wounding more than 50.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n SOURCE:
\n Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iranian security forces have detained 10 people suspected of links to a suicide car bomb attack that killed at least two policemen earlier this week, police chief Hossein Ashtari said.\u00a0 “Good clues have been obtained and hopefully with the public’s cooperation … we will get to the main leads,” Ashtari was quoted by the state…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}