ANALYSIS: Iran-Pakistan Flare-up Rooted in Restive Borderlands, Not Mideast Strife - KAYHAN LIFE

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42% : In public statements, both countries have observed their attacks were not aimed at each other's nationals, and signalled they don't want escalation.
27% : It also came a day after Iran launched attacks in Iraq and Syria, which it said targeted Israeli espionage and Islamic State operations, respectively.Iraq Files Complaint Against Iran Government at UN Security Council Over Iranian 'Aggression'But the tit-for-tat blows between Iran and Pakistan occurred far from that war zone, in remote borderlands where separatist groups and Islamist militants have long carried out attacks on government targets, with officials in Pakistan and Iran often accusing each other of complicity in the bloodshed.

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