Following the 13 February attack against an IRGC bus in south-eastern Iran, the IRGC's commander claimed that Pakistan had "sheltered" those responsible and "should be held accountable for the crime that has been committed". He went on to warn that "the patience that the [Iranian] establishment used to exercise in the face of such conspiracies and reactionary government of the region, especially Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which are acting at the behest of the U.S. and the Zionist regime [i.e Israel], will be different".