Iranian soldiers participate in military manoeuvres at Sistan-Baluchestan province near the Pakistani border in August. Iran has vowed to give a "tooth-breaking" response to a Sunni Muslim rebel group which killed 16 Iranian policemen it abducted in June, local press reports have said. (AFP/File/Str)From Yahoo News/AFP:
TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran has vowed to give a "tooth-breaking" response to a Sunni Muslim rebel group which killed 16 Iranian policemen it abducted in June, local press reported on Saturday.
"The Islamic republic will firmly give a tooth-breaking response to armed rebels in border areas," Qorban Ali Dori Najafabadi, the state prosecutor general, was quoted as saying by the Etemad Melli daily.
Iran confirmed on Thursday that all abducted policemen were killed by the "terrorist group of Abdolmalek Rigi."
The Jundullah (Soldiers of God) group had said they captured 16 Iranian border policemen on June 12 at a checkpoint in the southeastern town of Saravan, before taking them across the border into Pakistan.
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My Comment: The civil war in this eastern Iranian province is about to heat up.