The attack occurred in the rugged countryside near Iran’s border with Pakistan, the official news agency IRNA reported late Wednesday.
“The terrorist attack on a police unit at Taftan in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan killed two policemen,” IRNA said.
The identity of the assailants and circumstances surrounding the attack were not immediately clear.
Unrest in impoverished Sistan-Baluchistan province, which also borders Afghanistan, has involved drugs-smuggling gangs, rebels from the Baluchi minority and Sunni Muslim extremists.
Similar attacks have previously occurred, including on July 23 when four policemen were killed while on patrol.
Miroslava Salazar, with AFP