Iran air strikes: Amir-Abdollahian claimed that Iran’s assault on “Pakistan’s soil” was a reaction to the recent, lethal assaults on Rask by the Jaish al-Adl group.

Iran’s top diplomat said that after Islamabad reported that two children were killed in the strike, Iran had targeted an “Iranian terrorist group” in Pakistan. On the fringes of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian declared, “No Iranian missiles or drones targeted any of the nationals of the friendly and brotherly country of Pakistan.” He went on, “The so-called Jaish al-Adl group, which is an Iranian terrorist group, was targeted.”

Amir-Abdollahian claimed that Iran’s assault on “Pakistan’s soil” was a reaction to the recent, lethal assaults on Rask by the Jaish al-Adl group.

After Iran attacked “anti-Iranian terrorist groups” in Syria and Iraq, it also carried out an offensive in Pakistan.

“The group has taken shelter in some parts of Pakistan’s Balochistan province,” he stated, adding that “we’ve talked with Pakistani officials several times on this matter” .

Although Tehran supported Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, the foreign minister of Iran declared that his country would not “allow the country’s national security to be compromised or played with”.

About the air strike, what has Pakistan said?

Pakistan blocked Tehran’s envoy from returning to Islamabad and recalled its ambassador from Iran in response to the strike near the countries’ shared border. On the fringes of Davos, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was also met by Pakistan’s interim prime minister, Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar, according to the Associated Press.

What is known about the strikes in Iran by Jaish al-Adl?

Nearly a month had passed after 11 police officers were slain in a similar attack in the same location when a policeman was killed in an attack on a Rask police station on January 10. Iran has blacklisted Jaish al-Adl as a “terrorist” organization, and they claimed responsibility for both attacks.

What did the foreign minister of Iran say about the attack on the Mossad headquarters?

According to the foreign minister, Tehran provided Iraq with intelligence regarding alleged operations of the Israeli intelligence organization Mossad in the semi-autonomous Kurdish area of Iraq.

SOURCE: https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/iran-after-air-strike-pakistan-friendly-and-brotherly-country-101705496948564.html