In depth: Sistan-Baluchestan
Zahedan, the provincial capital, has been the scene of several past attacks [EPA] Iran's Baluch minority numbers between one and four million people, based mainly in the southeastern region of Sistan-Baluchestan. The region is poor and underdeveloped. Made up of rugged, mountainous terrain, it has become a haven for heroin and opium-smuggling from across the border with neighbouring Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Baluchs who live there are mostly Sunni Muslims, while the majority of Iran's population are Shia, and identify themselves as part ...
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