Terrorists enter Iran via Pakistan

A senior Iranian lawmaker says terrorists enter Iran from Pakistan and other neighboring countries, urging Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence to reconsider its relations with militants.

Head of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi said that the people want authorities to prevent terrorist acts and demand that a solution be found to put an end to such incidents.

On July 15, two bomb explosions in quick succession took place outside the Zahedan Grand Mosque. At least 27 people lost their lives and more than 100 others were injured in the terrorist attack, which has widely been blamed on extremist Wahabis and Salafis trained by US intelligence in Pakistan.

“The Pakistani government and the country’s Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) which have relations with terrorists must reconsider and take necessary measure to confront these criminals,” Fars News Agency quoted Boroujerdi as saying.

Pakistan’s ISI was one of the parties involved in the creation of the Taliban as a force to counter the Soviet influence in the volatile region in the 1980’s.

The ISI is widely believed to be linked to, and support militants in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Pakistani military’s Intelligence service, however, denies the allegations as baseless.

Broujerdi expressed hope that Iranian security and intelligence forces will increase their efforts in future so that such a tragic incidents would not be repeated in the country.