{"id":16831,"date":"2023-12-15T09:54:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T09:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=16831"},"modified":"2023-12-16T06:20:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T06:20:11","slug":"eleven-security-personnel-killed-in-attack-on-iran-police-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2023\/12\/eleven-security-personnel-killed-in-attack-on-iran-police-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleven security personnel killed in attack on Iran police station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; At least 11 Iranian security personnel have been killed in an attack on a police station in the southeastern border province of Sistan-Baluchestan, as reported by the state television.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alireza Marhamati, deputy governor of the province, said on Friday that senior police officers and soldiers were killed and injured in the 2:00 a.m. attack in the town of Rask, about 1,400km (875 miles) southwest of the capital, Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>A number of assailants were also killed in a shootout that ensued with the security forces, according to state television reports.<\/p>\n<p>The attack was one of the deadliest in years in the region close to Iran\u2019s border with Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice), a Sunni armed group, claimed responsibility for the attack, state media said. Jaish al-Adl was formed in 2012 and is blacklisted by Iran as a \u201cterror\u201d group.<\/p>\n<p>Similar attacks have previously taken place, including in July when four policemen were killed while on patrol.\u00a0That attack came two weeks after two policemen and four assailants were killed in a shootout in the province, for which Jaish al-Adl claimed responsibility, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; At least 11 Iranian security personnel have been killed in an attack on a police station in the southeastern border province of Sistan-Baluchestan, as reported by the state television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":16832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,16,17,194,233,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-report","category-security_","category-world","category-iran","category-news_","category-headline"],"views":91,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16834,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16831\/revisions\/16834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}