At least two security officials killed near Iran’s critical Chabahar port

Iran says ‘terrorist groups’ supported from outside the country are targeting security forces.Published On 14 Oct 202614 Oct 2026At least two Iranian security personnel have been killed in separate incidents along the country’s eastern border with Pakistan, adding to a string of attacks near the critical Chabahar port over the past few weeks.An officer commanding a women’s unit in Iran’s Basij paramilitary force – part of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IGRC) – has been shot and killed outside her home in the Mehrestan district of Sistan-Baluchestan province on Wednesday, according to Tasnim news agency.Another officer was killed in a separate attack on a police vehicle, also in Mehrestan, which lies close to Iran’s border with Pakistan.On Wednesday, Haalvash, a rights group focusing on the region’s Baluch ethnic minority in the province, said military helicopters were circling over the city of Iranshahr, adding that the security situation remained tense in several locations.Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province houses the critical Chabahar port on the country’s eastern flank, where US forces carried out air strikes targeting infrastructure and naval control facilities in Ju...