Four police officers were wounded on Tuesday night while dismantling a “suspicious package” in the city of Zahedan, southeast Iran.
The Jaish al-Adl group claimed responsibility for the explosions and said it had targeted a police station with “two strong bombs”, damaging a police car and motorcycle.
Last October, the same group had claimed responsibility for kidnapping 10 Iranian security personnel, including Revolutionary Guards members in Sistan-Baluchestan.
Iranian state agencies reported hearing the sound of two explosions in Zahedan, while the Mehr news agency quoted the head of Sistan-Baluchestan police Mohammad Qanbari as saying that four officers were injured after the police received information about the explosion of a percussion grenade.
When the police rushed to the location of the first explosion, they “found a suspicious package on the street,” he said.
The package exploded before being neutralized by a bomb disposal unit.
Qanbari said the police forces controlled the situation and updates will be released by the police.
The news website of the Young Journalists Club, which is linked to Iran's official radio and television, said two suicide bombers blew themselves up in front of a police station.
Zahedan is the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province, which has seen past attacks by Baluch separatists and drug traffickers.
Separately, the secretary of Iran's top security body, Ali Shamkhani, said Tuesday that his country has no intention of increasing the range of its missiles.
In an address to a national summit on space technology at the Iran University of Science and Technology, in Tehran Tuesday, Shamkhani said: “Iran has no scientific and operational restrictions for increasing the range of its military missiles, and it is only continuously working on boosting the precision [of the missiles] based on its defense doctrine.”
