CIAO DATE: 06/2014
February 2014
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Although Tehran worries about internal threats from Salafi jihadists, it may well cooperate with such groups if they attack Western interests. On February 8, Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice), a Salafist armed group in Baluchistan, Iran, announced that it had taken five Iranian soldiers hostage. On December 5, the same group killed three members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). In retaliation, the Iranian judiciary immediately executed sixteen imprisoned members of the group.
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