Security Personnel Killed in Southern Iran

At least three security personnel including the deputy of a police station have been killed in "terrorist attacks" in southern Iran, state media reported.

"Three security members have been martyred in several night-time terrorist attacks on military stations in the cities of Rask and Chabahar" in Sistan-Baluchistan province, Alireza Marhamati, deputy governor of the province, told state TV.

"In one of the attacks on police station number 11 of the city of Chabahar, deputy of the station Abbas Mir, was martyred," state broadcaster IRIB said, adding that a number of assailants were also killed or injured.

It also said that the jihadist Jaish al-Adl group, which was formed in 2012 and is blacklisted by Iran as a "terrorist" group, claimed responsibility for the attacks.

In July last year, two policemen and four assailants were killed in an attack on another police station in Zahedan, the province's capital.

Local security officials said the attacks that started late at night hit two police and military posts in the cities of Rask and Chabahar.

A soldier, a security guard,  a Basij volunteer force and 2 police officers are among the martyrs while five terrorists were killed in exchange of fire.

Clashes continue in three parts of Balochistan in the cities of Sarbaz, Rask and Chabahar, and the terrorists are completely surrounded by security forces, report said.

Majid Mirahmadi, Iran's Deputy Interior Minister for Security and Police Affairs said that the simultaneous terror attacks in Chabahar and Rask were foiled due to the alertness of security and law enforcement forces.

In Rask, the terrorists have been completely defeated and are surrounded by security forces, he said, adding that the terrorists who attacked the IRGC headquarters in Chabahar were defeated as well and took refuge in a nearby building, and four terrorists are under siege.