Sunni rebels execute two Iranian policemen
Washington, 11 August (IranVNC)—Iranian Sunni rebel group, Jondollah [God’s Soldiers], said on Sunday it has abducted three members, including two officers, of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps [IRGC], and executed two of the policemen the group has been holding hostage since June, reports Al-Arabiya television today.
By: IranVNC
Published: Monday, August 11, 2008
18:08GMT—2:08PM/EST
JONDOLLAH – SUNNI REBELS – IRAN – HOSTAGES
Washington, 11 August (IranVNC)—Iranian Sunni rebel group, Jondollah [God’s Soldiers], said on Sunday it has abducted three members, including two officers, of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps [IRGC], and executed two of the policemen the group has been holding hostage since June, reports Al-Arabiya television today.
According to a Jondollah spokesperson, who spoke to Al -Arabiya, the two policemen were killed because of “the failure of contacts between the Iranian government and Jondollah,” reports Reuters.
Jondollah has already killed at least four of the 16 policemen abducted in June, and is considered by Iran’s Shiite government as a terrorist group linked to al-Qaida.
On Sunday, the Sunni group captured three officers of the IRGC, one of them was a colonel and another a major.
AFP reports Jondollah vows to execute two officers a week until the Iranian leaders agree to release 200 of their detained fighters.
Last week, Jondollah’s leader, Abdolmalek Rigi, promised his group would disarm if Tehran agreed to grant them and Iran’s Sunni community full political rights.
The rebels are based in Iran’s Sistan-va-Baluchestan province near the Pakistani border, and have been blamed for the escalating violence in that region.
Sources: Agence France-Presse, Reuters
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