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Source: https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/The-Baloch-people-in-Irans-grip-569320
The Baloch People in Iran's Grip
(Jerusalem Post) Jamal Nasir Baloch - Iran is a forced marriage of several nations. The Baloch people speak Balochi, a language linked with Kurdish. Balochistan is a vast landmass larger than France, currently divided between Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Baloch nation successfully established a nation-state in the mid-17th century that governed all parts of Balochistan until 1839 when the British Empire attacked. Its western parts were merged into Persia in 1871, where the use of the Balochi language in schools was outlawed and expressions of Baloch identity were barred. The writer is an activist of the Free Balochistan Movement and a member of Chatham House, Britain's Royal Institute of International Affairs.