...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
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A delegation from Iran’s Lord High Potentate and Supreme Leader of All He Surveys Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...expressed sadness and promised solutions in a visit to a southeastern province where dozens have been killed in unrest, official media said.
The violence in Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Balochistan province which borders Pakistain, erupted on September 30, and authorities say six members of the security forces were among the dead.
The casualties came against the backdrop of nationwide unrest that followed the September 16 death of Mahsa Amini, 22, after her arrest by morality police in Tehran for allegedly violating Iran’s strict dress code for women.
Some local figures said the protests in Zahedan were triggered by anger over the reported rape of a teenage girl by a police officer.
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Zahedan is one of the few Sunni-majority cities in predominantly Shiite Iran.
"We came to share the sadness felt by the supreme leader concerning the incidents which happened" in the province, said Mohammad-Javad Haj Ali Akbari, front man for the delegation which arrived Saturday.
He said they were also there to "report on measures decided [by Khamenei] to resolve these problems," the state news agency IRNA quoted him as saying on Sunday.
Akbari also referred to a "special plan" from Khamenei to benefit the province’s people, but IRNA gave no further details on such measures.
He also met the imam of Zahedan’s Makki mosque, Iran’s largest Sunni house of worship, and said he wanted to see relatives of those killed or maimed in the incidents "to console them."
In late October the Sistan-Balochistan security council said it had concluded an investigation that found "negligence" by officers and the deaths of "innocent" civilians during the unrest.
The council announced the dismissal of Zahedan’s police chief as well as the head of a cop shoppe.
Poverty-stricken Sistan-Balochistan had previously seen festivities with drug smuggling gangs as well as rebels from the Baluchi minority and Sunni Moslem bad boy groups.