The Intelligence Ministry said on Saturday that the two were freed following “complex intelligence operations” by security forces and tracking of the “bandits and anti-revolutionary groups” in the region.
Hamed Sedaqati, a fencing champion and member of Iran's national fencing team, and Mehdi Hossein Qaralari, a lawyer, were driving from the port city of Chabahar to Zahedan, the capital city of Sistan and Baluchestan Province late April, when they were attacked near the southeastern border city of Khash.
The attackers shot dead a third man on the spot, and took away Sedaqati and Qaralari to an unknown location.
Located in south of Zahedan, the city of Khash has a common border with Pakistan.
In February, terrorists from Jaish-ul-Adl group kidnapped five Iranian border guards in Jakigour region in the same province and took them to the Pakistani territory.
On April 6, four of the five abducted guards were freed and reunited with their families.
On October 25, 2013, Jaish-ul-Adl terrorists also killed 14 Iranian border guards and wounded six others in a border region near the city of Saravan in Sistan and Baluchestan Province.
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