Iran – The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has hired a Pakistani gang to carry out terrorist operations inside Iran.
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The gang, called Jondollah, includes members of Baluch tribes and is led by Abdul Malek Rigi who is operating from Pakistan’s part of the Sistan and Baluchistan province in southeastern Iran, the ABC News said on Wednesday.
The terrorist gang has so far carried out many deadly raids, resulting in the deaths or kidnapping of ordinary Iranian people as well as soldiers and officials in the region.
The large Iranian community residing in the U.S. has strongly protested to a recent live interview with Rigi on Voice of America (VOA) in which he claimed responsibility for the operations.
Rigi admitted to having personally executed some of the Iranian captives, the ABC News report said.
The group claimed responsibility for an attack in February that killed at least 11 members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards riding on a bus in the provincial capital, Zahedan.
In interviews with an Iranian television channel last month, a number of those involved in the terrorist attack confessed to having received trainings for the missions at a secret location in Pakistan. [PressTV]
