The wife of Iranian border official Jamshid Danaifar, who was allegedly executed by the Sunni group Jeysh-ol-Adl after he was abducted along with four other border guards, is demanding more information about her husband. Elham Nazardoost told Iran’s official news agency: “My husband, like any other soldier in any part of the world, worked […]
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MP praises role of Sunni leaders in hostage release
Iranian MP Ali Motahari said in Parliament that the role of Sunni religious leaders and elders in negotiating the release of the abducted border officers should not be overlooked. “On the issue of release of the border officers, certainly security and intelligence officers had a fundamental role, but this should not deny the part […]
Rohani calls for truth about captive border guard allegedly killed
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has welcomed the return of four Iranian border officials who had been held hostage since February by the group Jeysh-ol-Adl group, while calling on government agencies to persist relentlessly in determining the fate of Jamshid Danaifar, a fifth hostage whom the group claimed to have executed. Today, four of the […]
Border officials held hostage now back in Iran
Four Iranian border officials abducted by the Sunni group Jeysh-ol-Adl arrived in Iranian territory on Sunday April 6, the Iranian interior ministry confirmed. In February, the group took five Iranian border officials hostage and in March they announced that they had executed one of them. Mowlavi Abdolhamid, a senior Sunni cleric in Sistan-Baluchistan, has […]