Iranian security and intelligence forces have arrested members of two terrorist cells in the Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran's Mehr news agency reported on Monday.

The individuals, linked to the terrorist group Jaish al-Adl, known in Iran as "Jaish al-Dhulm" (Army of Injustice), were captured in the Rask and Sarbaz counties of the province, the agency mentioned.

According to available information and the confessions obtained from the detained members, the terrorists had planned to carry out attacks aimed at destabilizing the region using weapons and explosive devices, Mehr indicated.

It added that Iranian authorities discovered and confiscated the terrorists' cache of weapons and explosives before they could execute any attacks.

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It is noteworthy that Jaish al-Adl is a notorious terrorist organization responsible for numerous attacks against Iran.

In January, Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps launched a top-tier ballistic operation against militant bases of the terrorist group in Pakistan's Balochistan province.

Jaish al-Adl is a separatist militant group, founded in 2012, operating in the mountainous border region between Iran and Pakistan. The group alongside other terrorist groups in the region strives for an independent Balochi ethnostate in the Iranian Sistan and Baluchestan. 

It has claimed a series of violent attacks killing and kidnapping members of Iran's border police in the past. In December 2023, it killed 11 people and wounded eight others in a hit-and-run terrorist operation against a police station in southeastern Iran.

In 2019, Jaish al-Adl claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing targeting a bus that killed 27 IRGC members.

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