A Revolutionary Guards statement quoted by the agency blamed what it called "terrorist" groups for the blast in a square in Saravan, near the border with Pakistain.
Earlier this month a UN human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
front man said at least a dozen people and possibly up to 23 had been killed in Saravan and other parts of Sistan-Baluchestan province where Revolutionary Guards and security forces used lethal force against fuel couriers from ethnic minorities, and protesters.
The shooting of people carrying fuel across the border led to protests that spread from Saravan to other areas of Sistan-Baluchestan, including the capital, Zahedan.
Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
has some of the lowest fuel prices in the world and there is some fuel-smuggling to neighboring countries.
The impoverished province has long been the scene of sporadic festivities between security forces and separatist snuffies and smugglers carrying opium from Afghanistan, the world’s top producer of the drug.