Iran has addressed “the friendly and brotherly government of Pakistan” after a tiff over Islamabad’s drone attack on an Iranian village near their border, calling on the neighboring state to prevent the establishment of “terrorist bases” on its soil.  

In a statement issued on Thursday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said it “condemns the unbalanced and unacceptable action of Pakistan in the drone attack on non-Iranian citizens in a village on the border wall of the two countries”. 

Nine people, including four children, were killed after Islamabad admitted attacking a village in Saravan in Iran’s southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan province, characterizing it a response to Tehran’s operation against terrorist bases inside Pakistan.

“While the Islamic Republic adheres to the policy of good neighborliness and brotherhood between the two nations and the two governments of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Pakistan and does not allow the enemies to darken the good and fraternal relations between the two countries, it considers the security of the people and the territorial integrity of the country as its red line,” the statement said.

“And it strongly expects the friendly and brotherly government of Pakistan to adhere to its commitments in preventing the establishment of bases and armed terrorist groups in Pakistan,” it added.

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