Iran steps up pressure on Pakistan on suicide attack

Iran on Tuesday stepped up pressure on Islamabad,accusing that the group which launched a deadly suicide attack on its territory killing a number of Revolutionary Guards and others,was based in Pakistan.

Iran on Tuesday stepped up pressure on Islamabad,accusing that the group which launched a deadly suicide attack on its territory killing a number of Revolutionary Guards and others,was based in Pakistan and demanded that its chief Abdolmalek Rigi be extradited.

The Foreign Minister Manochehr Mottaki said,members of the group regularly violated Iran-Pakistan border and launched attack inside the Islamic Republic. His strong comments came as Tehran said that in Sunday’s suicide attack 15 Revolutionary Guards were killed.

“They cross into Iran illegally. They are based in Pakistan,” Mottaki was quoted by IRNA news agency. The Iranian Information minister said a high level group of officials would travel to Pakistan to demand extradition of Rigi after presenting the involvement of the group Jundallah in attacks on the Iranian soil.

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The war of words between the two neighbours intensified after Iran state television’s website reported that fifteen members of the elite Revolutionary Guards were killed in a weekend suicide bomb attack in southeast Iran.

Earlier reports from Tehran had said only seven Revolutionary Guards commanders,including its deputy chief had been killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a meeting they were holding with the local tribesmen in Sistan on the Pakistan border. IRNA,the official news agency called on Iranian security forces “to seriously deal with Pakistan once and for all.”