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1 Killed, 5 Wounded in Attack on Basij Base in Southeast Iran

Members of the Basij force march during a military parade in Tehran November 25, 2011. (Reuters)
Members of the Basij force march during a military parade in Tehran November 25, 2011. (Reuters)
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1 Killed, 5 Wounded in Attack on Basij Base in Southeast Iran

Members of the Basij force march during a military parade in Tehran November 25, 2011. (Reuters)
Members of the Basij force march during a military parade in Tehran November 25, 2011. (Reuters)

One person was killed and five wounded in an attack on a Basij paramilitary base in the southeastern town of Nik Shahr, reported Iranian state television on Saturday.

“A (paramilitary) Basij base in Nik Shahr came under ... fire this morning and several from the Revolutionary Guards communications personnel who were wiring the base were hit,” Mohammad Hadi Marashi, provincial deputy governor for security affairs, told the state news agency IRNA.

Authorities did not provide details about the nature of the assault.

The semi-official news agency Tasnim said the Jaish al-Adl militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

The attack happened during the morning flag raising at the base, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

Nik Shahr is located in Sistan-Baluchestan province.

On Tuesday, Jaish al-Adl claimed responsibility for two bombings last week that wounded three police officers in front of a police station in the city of Zahedan, capital of Sistan-Baluchestan.

In December, a suicide car bomber struck a police headquarters in the port city of Chabahar, killing at least two police and wounding 42 others.

Iran began on Friday ten days of state-sponsored celebrations marking the 1979 Revolution which deposed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

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JD Vance Says US at War with Iran's Nuclear Program, Not Iran

Vice President JD Vance, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2025, at the National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Md., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP)
Vice President JD Vance, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2025, at the National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Md., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP)
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JD Vance Says US at War with Iran's Nuclear Program, Not Iran

Vice President JD Vance, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2025, at the National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Md., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP)
Vice President JD Vance, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2025, at the National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Md., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP)

Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday the US was not at war with Iran but at war with its nuclear program, adding the program had been pushed back by a very long time due to American strikes ordered by President Donald Trump.

Trump said he had "obliterated" Iran's main nuclear sites in strikes overnight with massive bunker-busting bombs, joining Israel's assault against its Middle East rival in a significant new escalation of conflict in the region.

"We're not at war with Iran. We're at war with Iran's nuclear program," Vance said in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press with Kristen Welker" show, Reuters reported.

"I think that we have really pushed their program back by a very long time. I think that it's going to be many, many years before the Iranians are going to be able to develop a nuclear weapon."

Vance accused Iran of not negotiating in good faith, which he said served as a catalyst for US strikes. The US had been in diplomatic talks with Iran about Tehran's nuclear program.

Tehran vowed to defend itself while UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was "gravely alarmed" by the US bombing of Iranian nuclear sites.

"We don't want a regime change," Vance added. "We do not want to protract this... We want to end the nuclear program, and then we want to talk to the Iranians about a long-term settlement here."

Vance said Trump made the final decision to strike Iran right before the strikes took place and that Washington has received some "indirect" messages from Tehran since the strikes.

Vance said the US "had no interest in boots on the ground."

Trump said on Friday he was going to decide in the next two weeks about direct US involvement in the Israel-Iran war which began with Israel's attacks on Iran on June 13. The war has raised alarm in a region already on edge since the start of Israel's war in Gaza in October 2023.

US ally Israel is the only country in the Middle East widely believed to have nuclear weapons and says it struck Iran to prevent Tehran from developing its own nuclear weapons.

Iran, which says its nuclear program is peaceful, is a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, while Israel is not.

Many Democratic US lawmakers said Trump's actions were unconstitutional and that it was the US Congress that had the power to declare war on foreign countries.

Vance responded to that criticism by saying Trump had "clear authority to act to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction."