Iran: unstable situation in Balochistan
Iranian soldiers on maneuver in 2006 in the province of Sistan-and-Balochistan, on the border with Pakistan.
(Illustrative image) © FARSNEWS / STR / AFP
By: Eric Bataillon
1 min
In this region bordering on Afghanistan and Pakistan, a guerrilla group is in action against the Pasdarans for the control of oil (and drugs) trafficking.
It must be said that this region of south-eastern Iran is particularly poor, for lack of exploitable natural resources.
Trafficking is therefore the main source of income for families.
With Stéphane Dudoignon, researcher at CNRS, guest researcher at the University of Amsterdam.
Since 2008, he has edited the Central Eurasian Reader, a biennial English-language journal of studies on contemporary Central Eurasia.
Iran
Afghanistan
Pakistan
On the same subject
Iran admits it can no longer export a drop of oil
Pakistan
Pakistan: attack on a Muslim religious site in Balochistan
Pakistan
Deadly attack on police academy in Balochistan near Quetta