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Iran arrests four Jundallah Sunni rebels

27 August 2011 20:13 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Iran’s security forces have arrested four members of the Jundallah "terrorist" group who had planned to carry out acts of sabotage in Iran on upcoming occasions, the local satellite Press TV reported Saturday, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

According to Masoud Heidari, chief of Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan Province’s Public Security Police, three Jundallah "terrorists" had been arrested on Aug. 2 as they attempted to depart for Iran’s Kerman Province with "explosives, weapons, and ammunition," said the report.

Heidari said the confessions of the detained terrorists led officials to their hiding place in a village in Khash town of Sistan-Baluchestan where they had stored explosives and firearms, according to Press TV.

A fourth terrorist was arrested in a joint operation with Khash police and intelligence office, said the police chief of Sistan- Baluchestan, where the police and civil forces monitor vigilantly Jundallah’s activities.

The Pakistan-based Sunni rebel group Jundallah, which says it is fighting for the interests of Sistan-Baluchestan’s large ethnic Baluch community, has claimed responsibility for the deadly attacks.