In a region that has experienced bloody violence resulting in over 4000 deaths of soldiers or police officers in the last 30 years, 16 "rebels" were killed near the border of Pakistan. This region is home Sunni Muslims in a country that is very much Shiite dominated. This came as a result of the deaths of 14 border guards during a clash. This area has faced a great amount of unrest due to trafficking that comes through this border of both drugs and immigrants as well as Sunni militants. Soldiers have been taken hostage into Pakistan and Iran is taking steps to insure their release, it seems they're using violence to try to accomplish this goal. I highly doubt killing people that are a "threat" to the regime is going to solve the trafficking problem, but at the very least it's showing people that they are understand there is an issue at hand. I don't agree with their means of doing so, but at least they're taking action.
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