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Smugglers’ protests: Iran succumbs to trauma and demons

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Smugglers’ protests: Iran succumbs to trauma and demons

James M. Dorsey
Mar 14, 2021
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Recent clashes in the Iranian province of Sistan and Balochistan highlight Iran’s vulnerabilities as well as its inability to overcome trauma and control its demons.

The clashes sparked by a crackdown on cross border fuel smuggling to neighbouring Pakistan achieved what past US and Saudi machinations failed to accomplish: ethnic unrest in a strategic, im…

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