[News] Israeli-backed militants carry out terror attack in Iran

[Anti-Imperialist News]

 Israeli-backed militants carry out terror attack in Iran

Israel's intelligence chief vowed to continue covert attacks within Iran
after Tel Aviv's 12-day war with Tehran in June

News Desk <https://thecradle.co/authors/news-desk-9>

JUL 26, 2025 -
https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-backed-militants-carry-out-terror-attack-in-iran
(Photo credit: IRNA)

Members of an Israeli-linked group carried out a terror attack in Iran's
Sistan and Baluchestan province on 26 July, Iranian state media IRNA
reported
<https://en.irna.ir/news/85897297/Six-killed-in-Israel-linked-terrorist-attack-on-Zahedan-Judiciary>.
At least six people were killed in the attack, as well as three attackers.

Alireza Daliri, deputy law enforcement commander in the province, told IRNA
that members of the terrorist team attempted to enter the Judiciary
Department in the city of Zahedan on Saturday morning.

Local security forces confronted the attackers, killing all three of them
in clashes.

Two of the militants fled the scene but were killed several streets away
from the Judiciary building. The third attempted to detonate a grenade but
was killed before he was able to.

A mother and her one-year-old child were among those killed, Daliri said.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in Zahedan said that 22
others were injured in the attack – the majority civilians.

The Iranian Judiciary said that emergency personnel had been sent to the
scene, evacuating the injured to nearby hospitals.

In a statement posted on social media, Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice), a
Baloch militant group, claimed
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/26/at-least-five-killed-in-courthouse-attack-in-irans-sistan-baluchestan>
responsibility for the attack, and urged “all civilians to immediately
evacuate the area of clashes for their safety."

On 25 July, one member of Iran's paramilitary volunteer group, the Basiji,
was killed <https://x.com/ScharoMaroof/status/1949046357269881052> after an
attack by Kurdish militants from the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) on a
military checkpoint near Sardasht close to the Iraqi border.

The PJAK is a sister organisation of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and
is often perceived as taking orders from the PKK leadership.

The attack comes as Israel has stepped up covert attacks in Iran following
the 12-day war launched by Tel Aviv against Tehran in June. Israeli drone
and warplane attacks killed 935 Iranians. At least 30 Israelis were killed
by Iranian retaliation attacks.

Officials cited by the *New York Times*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/world/middleeast/iran-fires-sabotage.html>
(NYT) on 23 July said they suspect Israel to be behind the mysterious
explosions that have taken place across the country since the end of the
war a month ago.

“Many of them were acts of sabotage,” three Iranian officials said,
including one member of the IRGC.

“A lot of us think that it is Israel's doing and that war is going to start
again,” a resident of the city of Kashan told NYT.

“We are not even in a ceasefire now; we are in a fragile suspension, and
any minute it can end, and we are back at war,” said Mahdi Mohammadi, an
Iranian politician and senior advisor to the head of Iran's parliament.

One day after the war ended, the director of Israel’s Mossad intelligence
agency, David Barnea, vowed to continue operations inside the Islamic
Republic.

“We will remain vigilant, keeping a close eye on all the projects in Iran,
which we know of, in the deepest way. We will be there as we have been
until now,” Barnea said.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://freedomarchives.org/pipermail/news_freedomarchives.org/attachments/20250727/9f24b2b5/attachment.htm>