The following report is by Middle East Eye:
Missiles hit a village near the city of Saravan in the Sistan-Baluchestan province of Iran, bordering southwest Pakistan.
Iranian state media reported that three women and four children, all of whom were non-Iranian, were among the nine people killed.
A statement from Pakistan’s foreign ministry said that “a number of terrorists were killed during the intelligence-based operation,” adding that the strikes were highly coordinated “precision military strikes”.
Attempting to play down the regional implications of the strikes, the ministry said that “Pakistan fully respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
“The sole objective of today’s act was in pursuit of Pakistan’s own security and national interest, which is paramount and cannot be compromised.”
A statement from Pakistan’s military said the strikes were carried out using “killer drones, rockets, loitering munitions and stand-off weapons”.
It added that the targets were bases used by the Baloch Liberation Front and the Baloch Liberation Army, separatist militant groups which Islambad has accused Tehran of harbouring.
The attacks came two days after Iran struck an area in Pakistan’s Balochistan province along the Iranian border, which Islamabad said killed two children.
Iran said the strikes targeted Jaish al-Adl, an ethnically Baloch Sunni militant group that has carried out attacks in Iran over recent years.
Tehran strongly denounced Thursday’s strikes, summoning Islamabad’s charge d’affaires to explain.
A day earlier, Pakistan recalled its ambassador in Iran, after what it described as a “blatant breach” of its sovereignty.
Earlier this week, Iran struck what it said were Islamic State targets in Syria, and an Israeli “espionage centre” in Iraq’s Erbil.
Tehran said the strikes were in retaliation to the 3 January attack on the Iranian city of Kerman which killed around 90 people who had gathered at a commemoration event for slain general Qassem Soleimani.
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AUTHOR COMMENTARY
It felt this was worth noting as the whole Middle East is on fire, as could be said for the rest of the world though, and all-out war is on the horizon this year, where everyone is basically gunning for each other at this point.
Pakistan has had their own economic problems, especially considering all the flooding, disease, and food rationing that has been going on. As I routinely note, wars are great economic stimulants, and everyone is looking to generate stimuli.
[6] And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. [7] For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. [8] All these are the beginning of sorrows. Matthew 24:6-8
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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