Tehran
A suicide car bomber attacked a police headquarters in the southeastern Iranian port city of Chabahar on Thursday, killing at least three people and wounding several others .

State television broke into its regular broadcast to report the attack as such assaults are rare in the Islamic Republic. Rahmdel Bameri, a provincial official, told state TV that a suicide attacker driving a vehicle loaded with explosives drove up to the police headquarters.

Chabahar, near Iran’s border with Pakistan on the Sea of Oman, is home to a new port recently built and is an economic free zone for the country.

The attack comes as Iran’s economy reels in the wake of the US re-imposing sanctions lifted by Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers.

While Iran still complies with the accord, President Donald Trump withdrew America over the deal in part due to Tehran’s ballistic missile programme, its “malign behaviour” in the Mideast and its support of militant groups like Hezbollah.

Another coordinated June 7, 2017 Islamic State group assault on parliament and the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, killed at least 18 people and wounded more than 50.

Meanwhile, India has strongly condemned the terror attack at Chabahar port, an important transit into Afghanistan and Central Asia. Reacting to the attack, MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said, “India strongly condemns today’s despicable terrorist attack in Chabahar, Iran.