Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have built up their presence in restive Kurdish regions, state media reported on Friday amid a crackdown on mass protests, as a video showed demonstrations in minority Baluch areas of the southeast. | Reuters
A prominent Baluch Sunni Muslim cleric, Molavi Abdolhamid, used his Friday prayers in Zahedan to call for an end to the repression of protests through arrests and killings.
More Revolutionary Guards armored units and special forces were heading to the west and northwest border regions, home to the Kurdish minority, several state news agencies reported, after earlier reinforcements were announced on Sunday. It has escalated its crackdown in Kurdish areas, with the UN rights commissioner noting on Monday reports of more than 40 deaths in those areas over the previous week. On Tuesday Iran said it had struck a Kurdish group in northern Iraq, the latest of several missile and drone attacks on Kurdish dissidents in recent weeks.
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