Ten killed in jihadist attacks in Iran

Ten members of Iran's security forces were killed in two attacks, including one on a police station, claimed by a jihadist group in Sistan Baluchestan in southeastern Iran, official media reported Thursday. 

"The attacks killed ten members of the security forces and 18 terrorists," state television said. 

Authorities had initially put the death toll at five law enforcement personnel and 15 assailants killed during the two overnight attacks on a base of the Revolutionary Guards, Iran's ideological army, in Rask, and a police station in Chabahar, near the border with Pakistan. 

The Pakistan-based jihadist group Jaish al-Adl (Arabic for 'Army of Justice') claimed responsibility for the attacks on its Telegram pages. 

This Sunni rebel group, formed in 2012, carried out several attacks on Iranian soil in recent years. 

It is considered a "terrorist organisation" by Iran, which is largely Shiite, as well as by the United States. 

In December, Jaish al Adl had already claimed responsibility for an attack on a police station in Rask, which killed eleven Iranian policemen. 

In mid-January, Iran carried out an attack in Pakistan, targeting the group's headquarters, according to the Iranian Mehr news agency. 

Iran and Pakistan frequently accuse each other of allowing rebel groups to operate from their respective territories to launch attacks. 

Jaish al Adl was trained by separatist activists from the Balkans, a minority of some 10 million mostly Sunni people spread across Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan.