Iran appoints first Baluch governor in restive province
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TEHRAN Iran 's government has appointed the first governor from the Baluch minority in the country's restive southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan . "Mansour Bijar was chosen as the governor of Sistan-Baluchistan," government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani said after a cabinet meeting. Bijar, 50, hails from the Baluch community, a mainly Sunni Muslim ethnic group in a majority Shiite country. His appointment follows an attack in Sistan-Baluchistan that killed at least 10 policemen, later
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