Senior Adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader for International Affairs, Ali Akbar Velayati, said on Saturday that his country will punish the preparatory and supporters of the Chabahar suicide attack with crushing response.
Iranian local media published Velayati’s short message early hours on Saturday.
“Enemies of the country should know that the noble nation and government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, with their resistance and perseverance, will foil all conspiracies of enemies waged against the country,” reads part of the statement.
A suicide car explosion killed two police officers and wounded more than twenty others on December 6th in Iran’s southeastern city of Chabahar.
Ansar Forqan claimed responsibility for the attack hours later. Baluch activists doubt the claim and say that the attack give Islamic republic authority to suppress the activists of religious minorities in Sistan and Baluchestan province.
“Ansar Forqan, a group which nobody has ever heard about, claimed the responsibility for today’s attack,” a Baluch activist told Avatoday on condition of anonymity at that time.
“We all know, just like the attack on military parade in Ahvaz, the recent one was also arranged by Islamic republic themselves to have an excuse to suppress the religious activists in Baluchestan.”
At least 28 people including bodyguard of the head of Ahwaz’s Iranian Revolutionary Guard Cops (IRGC) were killed in an attack on a military parade inside the city in September. Iranian regime blamed Israel, Saudi Arabia and US for backing the attack.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran…will bring perpetrators and masters of this malicious act into justice,” Velayati wrote on Chabahar attack.
In 2010 about 30 people including members of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Cops were killed in a similar suicide attack in a Shiite mosque, southeast of Iran.
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused United States for backing the attack at that time.
