Iran-Pakistan Missile Exchange Stokes Tension in Already Volatile Region

A rare missile exchange between Iran and Pakistan has served to raise temperatures in the already volatile West Asia and Middle East regions. On Jan. 18, Tehran lodged a formal complaint with Pakistan after the latter conducted a series of missile strikes against targets in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan province. According to Pakistan’s foreign ministry, the dawn strikes targeted two sites associated with a Boloch militant faction opposed to the Pakistani government. Iran’s southeastern Sistan and Baluchistan province shares a lengthy border with Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan region. Pakistan’s foreign ministry said several Baloch “terrorists” had been killed by what it described as “precision strikes on terrorist hideouts.”...