Baluch

Baluch separatist groups initially wanted a greater share of provincial resources, but later initiated an insurgency for independence from the central government.

Jaish al-Adl, a separatist ethnic Baluch group designated by the United States as a terrorist organization, claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Iran has faced low-level separatist unrest from Kurds in its northwest, the Baluch in its east and Arabs in its southwest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

The attacks appeared to target two Baluch militant groups with similar separatist goals.

Those strikes were made in response to an Iranian strike in Pakistan that appeared to target a different Baluch militant group with similar separatist goals.