“…Terrorist organisations and mercenary-like groups, such as Jundallah and Jaish ul-Adl, which have taken sanctuary in Pakistan and received financial and military support from Saudi Arabia, the US, and Israel, have been carrying out subversive actions, insurgency operations, and terrorist attacks against Iranian targets for the past 20 years (Basit, 2018(Basit, , p. 1040Verma, 2021). In a single suicide attack in February 2019, Jaish ul-Adl killed 27 IRGC members and wounded 13 others (Verma, 2021). Jaish ul-Adl is only one of the Salafi-Jihadist groups that has taken up arms to fight for what it says are the rights of the aggrieved population of the predominantly Sunni region in south-east Iran (Basit, 2018(Basit, , p. 1040Verma, 2021).…”