Iran’s Baghdadi, Jalil Qanbar-Zah, the engineer of armed militias operations

Commander of the IRGC Ground Force's Quds Base General Mohammad Marani has announced that Iranian forces engaged in a battle with terrorists southeast of Iran and killed Ansar al-Furqan's leader Jalil Qanbar-Zahi.

Security forces also announced that they had dismantled the terrorist cell in Sistan-Balochistan Province associated with the Baluchi Sunni jihadi group.

According to Marani, the IRGC forces managed to confiscate around 2.7 tons of explosives that were in Zahi’s position as he intended to bomb a border checkpoint using three rigged vehicles carrying at least 800kg of explosives each.

With a Sunni majority, the Sistan-Balochistan Province, southeast of Iran, has been witnessing internal conflicts and turmoil due to the difficult economic conditions and the exacerbation of ethnic and sectarian problems in this area of Iran, leading to the spread of armed groups and political movements that oppose the Iranian regime.

The killing of Zahi, however, did not occur on Saturday, however, it took place on June 2017.

Jalil Qanbar-Zahi, leader of Ansar al-Furqan, had been pursued by Iranian security forces for 25 years and was killed by the Guards near the city of Qasr Qand, IRNA reported.

Iranian security forces have carried out a string of raids and arrests after a complex terror attack that targeted the Iranian parliament in Tehran and the shrine of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, south of the capital, leaving 18 dead.

Iranian intelligence reports clarified that Zahi was the mastermind behind the formation of some armed organizations in the Sistan-Balochistan Province, as he joined Abdolmalek Rigi in organizing the Jundallah terrorist group as well as Ansar Al-Furqan.

The first terrorist operation carried out by Ansar al-Furqan took place in 2014 as the group blew up an IRGC freight train in Zahedan city “for supporting the Syrian regime.”

In April 11, 2015, Ansar al-Furqan in the Sistan-Balochistan area announced responsibility for bringing down a helicopter owned by the IRGC and also blew up a train carrying goods for the guards.

Operations carried out by Ansar al-Furqan mainly targeted military bases and assassinating official figures of the Iranian republic.

Moreover, Zahi also planned for a terror explosion that targeted Imam Hussein’s Tasu'a ceremonies in 1998, which resulted the killing of a number of security and police forces in the Sistan-Balochistan region.