Of interest in the article is the fact that Iran had deployed “indigenous” Basijis to staff the post, an indication that Iranian authorities seek to utilize ideological loyalists among local ethnicities to be the face of its security. That the same article shares the assessment that infiltrated agents helped conduct the operation from the inside, however, could suggest discord within the security forces about such a strategy and might signal a forthcoming decision to revert to staffing of years past, in which Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps units not native to Baluchistan were the first line of local security and defense.