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Iran makes veiled threat against Pakistan, despite agreement

By iNFOTEL
May 08 2017 02:22 AM

CP1955992207 — FILE -- In this Sept. 21, 2016 file photo, Chief of Staff of Iran\'s Armed Forces, General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri delivers a speech during a military parade marking the 36th anniversary of Iraq\'s 1980 invasion of Iran, in front of the shrine of late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran. State television on Monday, May 8, 2017, quoted Bagheri as saying soldiers will attack terrorists wherever they are, suggesting they could go over the border into Pakistan to target militants there. The report comes after an attack claimed by the Sunni militant group Jaish-ul-Adl killed 10 soldiers in April. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran is making veiled threat against neighbouring Pakistan despite their recent agreement to work together to boost border security in the wake of a border attack that killed 10 Iranian guards.

Iranian state TV is quoting the army’s chief-of-staff, Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, as saying on Monday that Iranian soldiers will attack “terrorists wherever they are,” suggesting they could cross into Pakistan to target militants there. The Sunni militant group Jaish al-Adl claimed the April assault.

Bagheri says that Pakistan to go after militant hideouts on its soil, but if there are “continued attacks, the terrorists’ safe havens will be targeted and crushed, wherever they are.”

The porous Iran-Pakistan frontier has long been used by drug smugglers and Sunni militants, both of whom occasionally clash with Iranian security forces.

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