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Border guards were "kidnapped between 4 and 5 am in the Lulakdan region by a terrorist group," the official IRNA news agency said.
Lulakdan is a small village 150 km south-east of Zahedan, capital of Sistan-Baluchistan province, in the south-east of the country.
The 14 members were involved in "a security operation" and included two members of the Revolutionary Guard's elite intelligence unit, seven Basij militiamen and five regular border guards, the Young Journalists said. & # 39; Club (YJC), a national news site.
The report was removed from the YJC website shortly thereafter.
The province has long been a strong point, with Baluchi separatists and Pakistani-based jihadists regularly attacking Iranian security posts.
On 28 September, the guards claimed to have killed four militants who had crossed the border.
Sistan-Baluchistan has a large ethnic Baloch community, mainly Muslim Sunni, which straddles the border.
The Sunni extremist group Jundallah (Soldiers of God) launched a bloody insurgency in the province in 2000 targeting security forces and officials of the Shia-dominated Iranian government.
The campaign culminated with a series of deadly attacks in 2007 – including two suicide bombings against a Shiite mosque that claimed the lives of 28 people – but was mitigated after the killing of the head of the mid-2010 group.
In 2012, Jundullah members formed a successor organization called Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice), which led a series of attacks against the security forces.
Iran claimed that the group had received support from the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia, with the complicity of Pakistan.
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