Three militants killed in Southeastern Iran, authorities confirm
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Iranian security forces on Sunday killed at least three people during clashes with jihadists in the country's restive southeast, state media reported, following a deadly attack on police last month.
"Three terrorists of the enemy were killed and nine others were arrested" during operations in Sistan-Baluchistan province, the official IRNA news agency said.
Some 15 militants have been reported killed since an October 26 attack claimed by the Pakistan-based Sunni jihadist group Jaish al-Adl (Arabic for Army of Justice).
That attack left 10 police officers dead in the province.
Sistan-Baluchistan, which borders both Afghanistan and Pakistan, is one of Iran's most impoverished provinces and one of the few mainly Sunni provinces in Shiite-dominated Iran.
It has for years faced unrest involving drug-smuggling gangs, rebels from the Baluchi minority and Sunni Muslim extremists.
Formed in 2012 by Baluch separatists, Jaish al-Adl is designated a terrorist organisation by both Iran and the United States.