Jondallah overtures shortlived, 3 IRGC soldiers captured

As I suspected, Jondallah's overtures to the Islamic Republic were rebuffed. And the result? Jondallah executes two more hostages and kidnaps three additional IRGC officers.

AFP reports:

Iran rebels execute two policemen, capture three Guards: report

DUBAI (AFP) — An Iranian Sunni rebel group claimed on Monday to have kidnapped three Revolutionary Guard officers and executed two policemen captured in June after talks with Tehran failed to secure their release, Al-Arabiya news channel reported.

The Jundullah (Soldiers of God) group captured the three officers on Sunday, the Dubai-based television said, quoting a spokesman for the group without specifying where they were seized.

The unnamed spokesman was also quoted as saying that "two border policemen have been executed out of eight that had remained captive" since they were captured on June 12.

According to the group, the border policemen were part of a group of 16 seized at a checkpoint in the town of Saravan, in restive Baluch-populated southeastern Iran, before being taken across the border into Pakistan.

Jundullah vowed to execute two guards each week unless Tehran agreed to their demands for the release of 200 of the group's detained fighters.

The group has been blamed for a string of attacks and kidnappings in Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan province, which is home to a large ethnic Baluch community and straddles the border with Pakistan.

Jundullah leader Abdolmalek Rigi said last week the group was ready for talks with the Tehran government, offering to law down its arms if predominantly Shiite Iran's Sunni minority was granted full political rights.