Baloch people
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Oct 27, 2026
Stefano RitondaleHOST
In the backdrop also, by the way, of significant internal problem sets for around outside of the economy.
Stefano RitondaleHOST
We've seen within the last couple of weeks to months, a significant increase in the amount of attacks led by Baloch's separatist groups across Southeast Iran and how that has caused significant problem sets for the Islamic Republic.
Stefano RitondaleHOST
Those conflicts have not only occurred in isolated areas, But they've also focused on larger cities.
Stefano RitondaleHOST
And we've seen casualties impacting the Iranian military and the IRGC with senior commanders having been killed as a result of those clashes.
Jiang XueqinHOST
And I think there'll be different stages to the ground offensive.
Jiang XueqinHOST
The way the Americans would want to fight this war is to use proxies, primarily the Kurds, as well as the Balochs and maybe even the Azerbaijanis.
Jiang XueqinHOST
And so what I believe already happening is you've got special forces CIA special teams embedded in with tribal groups throughout Iran trying to format an uprising and the Iranians have done an excellent job of identifying these possible groups and attacking them preemptively.
Jiang XueqinHOST
So we've seen the Iranians launch drone strikes against Kurdish camps in Iraq.
Mario NawfalHOST
Also, there's been all these explosions happening in Iran.
Mario NawfalHOST
Some of them have been claimed to be American strikes, the ones on the Balochistan region.
Mario NawfalHOST
I forgot the name of the location.
Mario NawfalHOST
One is Konarak Naval Base.
Mario NawfalHOST
Another one is not far from that.
Mario NawfalHOST
Again, the same region, the Balochistan region at the Strait of Hormuz, east of the Strait of Hormuz.
Mario NawfalHOST
And today there was an explosion at a radar all the way up north.
Mario NawfalHOST
I think it's Tabriz.
Jason SandovalHOST
So this reporter and I are talking, and the reporter asked me, you know, point blank, like, how is it that we went from 2012, where there were, you know, maybe tons of Captagon seized all over the world, to 2015, where we're seeing ton after ton seizure of Captagon across the four major countries of the Levant? So I give her this textbook answer.
Jason SandovalHOST
superficial analysis of somebody who's looking at heroin organizations, looking at heroin organizations branching into cocaine, looking at old school Kurdish groups, working with Baloch groups in Afghanistan to ship it off to the West and deliver it to London and deliver it to Amsterdam and the trying true old Silk Road that turned into the Balkan route.
Jason SandovalHOST
I give her this answer of, hey, it was just the chaos of the Syrian civil war.
Jason SandovalHOST
It created a lot of ungoverned space.
GeneHOST
So we know that the Kurds have, you know, weaponry.
GeneHOST
The other group is in the southeast called the Baloch people.
GeneHOST
I hope I'm pronouncing that right.
GeneHOST
It's B-A-L-O-C-H.
Brandon WeichertHOST
Iran.
Brandon WeichertHOST
He thinks what we're going to do is set up a beachhead, a foothold, maybe in Shabahar or somewhere near there, try to create a fortified position, and then use that as a main base to train up and coordinate the Baluch resistance fighters, have them move up north from the south to conduct all kinds of raids, and then have the CIA-backed Kurds come in from the north and and that puts them behind the Zagros Mountains there, and they can fight in that flatland in the middle of Iran.
Brandon WeichertHOST
He thinks that's coming.
Brandon WeichertHOST
And I also think, by the way, it was funny because Anthony's segment got cut off yesterday because his internet died, right as he was explaining how we're going to draft people.
Mustafa ChaudhryMODERATOR
Since you've been speaking so much, I'd like to share a little bit of an anecdote about rewriting identity.
Mustafa ChaudhryMODERATOR
So I was shooting in Lyari and the subject happened to be one of the Baloch twins.
Mustafa ChaudhryMODERATOR
Baloch twins, if the name wasn't clear, are Baloch twins, they're brothers, and they're quintessentially Baloch with the hair and the beautiful skin and all that.
Mustafa ChaudhryMODERATOR
And we were in Lyari, and they were in front of the camera, and I was behind the camera.
Mustafa ChaudhryMODERATOR
So two young kids, also Baluch, beautiful skin, beautiful hair, come in, and they're so small that they can barely reach my knee.
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Shehzad Ghias ShaikhGUEST
But he has to because they also hold power and they use that power to enrich themselves.
Faheer MangalUNKNOWN
Thank you, sir.
Faheer MangalUNKNOWN
My name is Faheer Mangal, and I'm from Balochistan.
Janatan SayehGUEST
So there's a lot of intra-Kurdish fighting.
Janatan SayehGUEST
You don't see that with the Baloch ethnic group.
Janatan SayehGUEST
They actually formed a new coalition in December 2025, and we see them really operating under the same umbrella.
Janatan SayehGUEST
With Kurds, you don't have that.
Mike BakerHOST
Eventually, you know, the security forces don't get paid.
Mike BakerHOST
And, you know, that's another point of leverage, perhaps to create some some splintering.
Mike BakerHOST
The Baloch population, you know, is it safe to say, is it fair to say primarily Sunni in the South? That's
Janatan SayehGUEST
correct.
Leila HudsonGUEST
Those eventually turned back and did not complete.
Leila HudsonGUEST
But also in the last hours, we hear about a strike on the Iranian coastal city of Sirik with a large Baluchi population and majority.
Leila HudsonGUEST
which may be one of the places from which attacks on naval vessels in the Strait of Hormuz is taking place.
Leila HudsonGUEST
We've seen the conflict between Saudi and the Houthi Ansar Allah continuing to develop with another strike on a civilian airport in Dammam in the last couple of hours.
Anthony AguilarGUEST
And then on the 21st of October, um, We had these renewed strikes.
Anthony AguilarGUEST
A few days before that, we had the strikes on Qanarak, Iran, which is in the southern peninsula near the Pakistan border in Baluch province.
Anthony AguilarGUEST
And then we had the strikes on Sariq yesterday, the day before, supposedly against launchers in Hormuzgan province.
Anthony AguilarGUEST
That's right in the Strait of Hormuz.
Anthony AguilarGUEST
Yes, with the Kurds.
Brandon WeichertHOST
Absolutely.
Brandon WeichertHOST
And Baluchi.
Anthony AguilarGUEST
So we know that the U.S. is still operating with the Kurds.
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