TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki stepped up pressure on Islamabad on Tuesday, saying the group accused of launching a deadly suicide attack in the country is based in Pakistan.
Mottaki said members of the group regularly violate the Iran-Pakistan border and launch attacks inside the Islamic republic.
"They cross into Iran illegally. They are based in Pakistan," Mottaki said without naming the group, as he ramped up pressure on Iran's friendly neighbour.
A suicide bomber on Sunday blew himself up at a meeting between commanders of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards and local tribesmen in the town of Pisheen in Iran's restive Sistan-Baluchestan province, bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Seven Guards commanders and dozens of other people were killed in the attack Iranian officials say was carried out by the shadowy Jundallah Sunni group which is waging a rebellion against the Shiite rule from Tehran.
Iranian officials have accused Britain, Pakistan and the United States of involvement in the attack.
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