{"id":31511,"date":"2019-02-02T09:23:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T09:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31511"},"modified":"2019-02-02T09:23:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T09:23:06","slug":"one-killed-five-wounded-in-attack-in-southeast-iran-state-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31511","title":{"rendered":"One killed, five wounded in attack in southeast Iran: state TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1445721\/middle-east\" readability=\"68\">\n<p>\nTEHRAN: A member of Iran\u2019s elite Revolutionary Guards was killed and five wounded in an armed attack in the restive southeast on Saturday, the official IRNA news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe attack took place in Sistan-Baluchistan province, long a flashpoint, where Pakistan-based Baluchi separatists and jihadists carry out cross-border raids.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe province has a large, mainly Sunni Muslim ethnic Baluchi community which straddles the border.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe assailants struck a base of the Basij militia in the town of Nikshahr, some way from the border, IRNA said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cMorteza Ali-Mohammadi was martyred in the incident and the five critically injured have been transferred to the hospital,\u201d Nikshahr\u2019s prosecutor Mohsen Golmohammadi told the semi-official YJC news agency.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe militant Jaish Al-Adl (Army of Justice), which is blacklisted as a terrorist group by Iran, claimed responsibility for the raid on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\nState media said only that it was a \u201cterrorist\u201d attack, and held no particular group responsible.<\/p>\n<p>\nJaish Al-Adl was formed in 2012 as a successor to the Sunni extremist group Jundallah (Soldiers of God), which waged a deadly insurgency against Iranian targets over the previous decade.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt also claimed responsibility for two bombings on Wednesday which wounded several police officers in the provincial capital Zahedan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: A member of Iran\u2019s elite Revolutionary Guards was killed and five wounded in an armed attack in the restive southeast on Saturday, the official IRNA news agency reported. The attack took place in Sistan-Baluchistan province, long a flashpoint, where Pakistan-based Baluchi separatists and jihadists carry out cross-border raids. The province has a large, mainly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31511","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\/31511","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=31511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}