Zahedan

On the 12th in Israel, explosion in the Galilee panhandle killed one and wounded several, and when they say several, it was 20.

On the 11th in Iran at Zahedan, hours-long armed clash with police left one officer dead.

On the 11th in Saudi Arabia in Riyadh, attack on Riyadh Airport keis- killed at least 12 people.

Again on the 11th, back to Israel to Al-Zariyya, planned knife and improvised incendiary terror attack- On the 10th in Iran, roadside bomb killed a police official in southeast Iran.

Allegedly, the group had kidnapped an engineer and was preparing to smuggle him out of Iran to an unspecified neighboring country.

The Baluch human rights organization Halvish is telling a different story, which is that the IRGC unleashed its Fatimiyun unit, which is composed mainly of Shia Afghan nationals, on an area near the city of Zahedan, and that unit indiscriminately began attacking people.

It claims that at least 20 Fatimiyun personnel were killed.

And the U.S. military added two more names to its list of Iran war dead on Friday, including one who died in Kuwait back in March.

Leila Barzagar, 49, from Torbat-e-Jam, detained August 5th.

Mohammad Javad Hajinijad, 30, from Jiroft, detained August 1st, and Malik Mohammad Shabaksh, 35, from Zahedan, detained July 29th.

For four others, Sadegh Safari, 34, from Esteban in Fars Province, Parson Ahad, 34, from Mashhad, Reza Badawi, 40, from Arak, and Hadi Safari, 50, from Delejan.

No arrest dates have been made public.

These are some of the scenes that the writer L describes here.

But on the other hand, there were many clashes with the security forces, especially in cities like Mahabad, Marivan, and also in Balochistan, in Zahedan, where protesters came to the street after the Friday prayer, and, um, they also chanted against the regime, chanted, uh, Woman, Life, Freedom, Zan, Zendegi, Azadi.

And only in one incident, more than 100 people were killed and injured after the Friday prayers as, um, as they were shot by the, by the security forces in Zahedan.

So the, the protests were spread across the country and was repressed with severe state violence, and the brutality with which these protests were repressed were unprecedented on many levels.

Great.

However, this is a Balochistan region, and what we're seeing right now, I can play the video I've just sent you, Balochistan terrorist activity in Iran has increased significantly in recent days.

We mentioned it briefly on the show a few days ago, maybe a day or two ago, with limited clashes in cities like Rask, Zahedan, and Iranshahr on an almost daily basis.

Actually, just show these provinces.

So the ones I've just mentioned there, show these ones on the map, and it'll show how close it is to the coastline.

Now this is the latest in a series of armed confrontations that we're seeing in this restive Sistan and Baluchistan province.

Apparently, there was heavy gunfire and rocket propelled grenade fire heard in the Mansehab area near Zahedan province.

The IRGC Quds regional headquarters said its forces had identified and destroyed what it described as an armed terrorist cell involving explosives found in houses.

So we'll come back to that if more comes out of that.