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Clandestine Funny Business in Iran: 18 IRGC Personnel Killed in Bomb Blast (Zahedan in Balochistan Province): Iran Focus Iran Focus Tehran, Iran, Feb. 18 – At least 18 members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) were killed in a bombing in the restive south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, state media reported on Wednesday. The bomb exploded next to a bus belonging to the IRGC Ground Forces as it was travelling down Tharollah Boulevard in the city of Zahedan, close to the Afghan border, the official news agency IRNA said. . . . Sistan-va-Baluchistan Province is home to Baluchis, a predominantly Sunni Muslim ethnic minority. Iran has witnessed escalating unrest since 2006 in areas populated by Baluchis, who complain of discriminatory and repressive policies by the theocratic regime. In recent months, Iranian authorities have stepped up executions in the restive province in what many Baluchis believe is a response to a spate of attacks by dissidents on government and security officials. A Baluchi group opposed to the government of Iran calling itself Jondollah has claimed responsibility for a string of armed attacks on government officials. Labels: Balochistan, Baluchis, Iran, IRGC, Jondollah, Shiite, Sunni, Zahedan Investigative reporting and cutting edge journalism from the Columnist Guild