Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Force said it killed or captured six suspected militants in the coastal city of Chabahar during large-scale “Martyrs of Security” counter-terrorism drills on 9 July. The force reported seizing light and heavy weapons as well as explosives and claimed the militants had been planning attacks on crowded public locations in Sistan & Baluchestan province, which borders Pakistan. The operation underscores persistent security concerns in Iran’s southeast, where Tehran accuses foreign-backed Baloch insurgent groups of staging attacks on security personnel and civilians. On 10 July, the Baloch Nationalist Army’s Beebarg faction said it had killed seven Iranian security officers near the Zahedan–Mirjaveh police station, an allegation Iranian authorities have not yet addressed publicly. Violence also spilled across the border the same day when separatist militants stopped buses on the Loralai–Dera Ghazi Khan road in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, identified passengers by ethnicity and fatally shot at least nine people from Punjab, according to local media and security officials. Several other passengers were reportedly abducted. Sistan & Baluchestan and neighbouring Pakistani Balochistan have long been flashpoints for insurgent activity by groups such as the BNA, Baloch Liberation Army and Baloch Liberation Front. The latest incidents are likely to intensify pressure on both Tehran and Islamabad to tighten border security and expand counter-insurgency cooperation.