The Baluch economy in western Baluchistan has been eroded and reshaped by the Turk and Persian invaders in the last 87 years. In the 1928 the Persian state under Reza Mir-Panj (Shah) with the help from Sarhadi Sardars (frontier tribal chiefs) and other losers’ tribal chiefs had defeated the sovereign rulers of the western Baluchistan and ended thousands years of the Baluch rules over their home land. The Shiite Turk and Persian invaders annexed the western Baluchistan into Persia (Iran).
Pahlavi father and son state (Iran) were absolutist rulers, the
kings were accountable to no one and share power to none. The economic institutions the shah imposed on
Baluchistan was extractive and there was no proper lands right. The land
formally belongs to the state and the Baluch were deprived from ancestral
lands.
However after 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran the Shiite regime
in Tehran claims legitimacy to rule over Iran on behalf of the Shiite majority.
The Shiite rulers of Iran lack the legitimacy to have such claim in
Baluchistan. The Persian rules have continuously been challenged violently as
well as not violently.
Tehran is not only losing the ability to impose stable order
in much of the Baluchistan but also the administrative capacity to continue
their colonial extractive policies.
The Sunni religious clergies have had their disagreement
with the Tehran Shiite rules. The local Shiite groups have times to times created
problem for the Sunni clergies but the Sunni religious leaders always have submitted
to the Shiite supreme leader verdict. The Sunni Mullahs and the Drug-mafia have
benefited from the Shiite rules.
Because the Shiite lacks legitimacy to rule over the Baluch
and Baluchistan, therefore they are seeking the support of Sunni clergies as
well as the drug-mafia who have benefited from the Persian Shiite rules in
Baluchistan. There is a great deal of lawlessness and there are many arm groups
and international drug alliances competing for the control over Baluchistan.
The supreme leader representatives in Baluchistan,
revolutionary Guard, the Sunni clergies and Baluch Drug-mafia have establish
strong connections that connection goes beyond the Iran borders into Afghanistan,
Pakistan, Yemen and the Gulf states.
Today Shiite regime in Tehran calms to bring about reforms,
but only naïve believes that, no reform possible without dismantling absolutist
institutions. The clergies drug-mafia, and
Shiite minority rule over majority Baluch in Baluchistan is dependent on absolutist,
undemocratic institutions and they are very powerful to black any reform.
The Baluch Sunni clergies are direct creation of Iranian Shiite.
M. Sarjov is a Baluch political activist based in London strive
for an independent Baluchistan,
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