Operation Marg Bar Sarmachar

|colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;"|Operation Marg Bar Sarmachar|
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|colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"|Part of the 2024 Iran–Pakistan border skirmishes and insurgency in Balochistan|
|colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;line-height:1.5em;"|<templatestyles src="Module:Location map/styles.css"></templatestyles><div class="center"><div class="locmap" style="width:240px;float:none;clear:both;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><div style="width:240px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:240px"><div class="od notheme" style="top:81.548%;left:91.854%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"></div><div class="pl" style="font-size:91%;width:6em;right:5px"><div>Saravan</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>|
|class="infobox-data"|Air strikes and missile strikes|
|class="infobox-data"|<div class="location" style="display:inline;">Saravan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran</div> <templatestyles src="Module:Coordinates/styles.css"></templatestyles><span class="geo-inline"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion load-gadget" data-gadget="WikiMiniAtlas"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">27°22′15″N</span> <span class="longitude">62°19′57″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct">﻿ / ﻿</span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">27.37083°N 62.33250°E</span><span style="display:none">﻿ / <span class="geo">27.37083; 62.33250</span></span></span></span></span><indicator name="coordinates"><span id="coordinates">Coordinates: <templatestyles src="Module:Coordinates/styles.css"></templatestyles><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion load-gadget" data-gadget="WikiMiniAtlas"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">27°22′15″N</span> <span class="longitude">62°19′57″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct">﻿ / ﻿</span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">27.37083°N 62.33250°E</span><span style="display:none">﻿ / <span class="geo">27.37083; 62.33250</span></span></span></span></span></indicator>|
|class="infobox-data"|<span class="flagicon"> </span>Pakistan|
|class="infobox-data"|<span class="flagicon"></span> BLA and BLF militant groups|
|class="infobox-data"|18 January 2024 04:05 IRST (UTC+03:30)|
|class="infobox-data"|<span class="flagicon"> </span>Pakistan Armed Forces|
|class="infobox-data"|9 people killed, several injured|
On the 18th of January 2024, Pakistan sent airstrikes inside the Iranian part of Balochistan trying to destroy separatist groups. They called it **Operation Marg Bar Sarmachar** (Death to rebels) by Pakistan. The attack was done in response to Iranian strikes in Pakistani Balochistan a day earlier.

Iran confirmed that 9 Balochistan Liberation Army members were killed in the airstrike.

The attack was the first attack on Iran by another country since the end of the Iran–Iraq War in the year 1988.

## Origin

Marg Bar Sarmachar means "death to rebels". Marg bar means "death to" in Persian and is used in the Iranian slogan Marg bar Amerika. Sarmachar means rebels in the Balochi language and is used by Balochi seperatists.