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Re:Iran students stage first large anti-government protests ... by alephnerd on Sunday February 22, 2026 @11:20AM (#47112243)
There is a lot of crossover.

Heck, one of our old neighbors growing up was a Iranian Baloch-Pakistani Baloch couple and according to them Baloch marriage across the border was extremely common. And Uzair Baloch had ties to both Iranian and Indian intelligence [0].

The Iran-Pakistan and the Iran-Afghanistan border is very porous because of how isolated Sistan-ve-Balochistan and much of Khorasan is from the rest of Iran.

[0] - https://herald.dawn.com/news/1153754

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Re:Iran students stage first large anti-government protests ... by selimthegrim on Sunday February 22, 2026 @12:34PM (#47112865)
Oh man I haven’t heard that name in a while. I still remember the Vice documentary going inside his house.
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Re:Iran students stage first large anti-government protests ... by alephnerd on Sunday February 22, 2026 @12:40PM (#47112935)
Haha yep, that documentary was wild - very old school Vice before they all got poached.

But anyhow, the entire thing has become a quagmire after CPEC was announced in 2015, because that forced India to confront the very real possibility of being enricled by China during a war.

This is what lead to India's quiet and now overt diplomacy with the Taliban, continued investment in Iran despite the sanctions, and building Saudi and UAE cofinanced megaprojects on the Indo-Pak border in GJ and RJ as well as in JK.

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