Mar 13, 1990 | Pakistani security forces kill 7 people when they raid a hideout of Iranian saboteurs planning attacks on Iran in the area of Sistan-Baluchistan. |
Mar 28, 1990 | Iran executes 2 men for spying for Iraq and collaborating with bandits and counter-revolutionaries in the Sistan-Baluchistan area. Note: Iran executes many of the rebels it catches. Such executions will not be further noted unless otherwise noteworthy. |
Mar 28, 1990 | UPI reports that Iran is facing a low-key rebellion among Baluchi tribesmen in the southeastern territories. The rebels are frequently referred to as drug traffickers, bandits and counter-revolutionaries. Note: Incidents will not be reported in this chronology unless at least one source refers to those perpetrating the incident as rebels or their actions are clearly rebellious. |
Apr 1990 | Iranian security forces clash with armed rebels and drug traffickers in the Sistan-Baluchistan province several times this month. |
Jun 7, 1990 | "Armed bandits" kill a prominent Iranian cleric in Sistan-Baluchistan. |
Feb 1 - Mar 31, 1991 | Severe flooding damages crops and property leaving at least 50,000 homeless. In the following months and years a considerable amount of foreign aid is donated to deal with this problem. |
Jun 1991 | Clashes between Baluchi tribesmen and government forces in the Sistan-Baluchistan province result in the deaths of over 100 of Iran's revolutionary guards. |
Jul 1991 | The Independent (July 16, 1991) reports that during 1990 in heavy fighting with Baluch tribesmen, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard lost at least 20 helicopters and "devastated" many Baluchi villages. |
Sep 13, 1991 | Iranian opposition radio reports clashes between Baluchi combatants and Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the city of Khashi. They also report a demonstration in the city of Birjand. |
Oct 18, 1991 | Iranian opposition radio reports clashes between Baluchi "strugglers" and "the regime's agents." |
Nov 5, 1991 | Iranian opposition radio reports continued clashes between Baluchi "strugglers" and Iranian government forces. |
Nov 28, 1991 | Iran claims to have killed 27 Baluchi rebels in a raid on a hideout in Sistan-Baluchistan. |
Apr 18, 1992 | 300 Afghan guerrillas based in Sistan-Baluchistan return to Afghanistan. |
Jun 24, 1992 | Local people protest over Iran's setting up a military base and violently clash with Iranian revolutionary guards in Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchistan. 6 revolutionary guards are killed and the township's mayor is taken hostage. |
Mar 18, 1993 | 3 Iranian Baluchi activists are murdered in Karachi by what are believed to be agents of the Iranian government. |
Jun 6, 1993 | Mohammed Hassan Arbab, a Baluchi activist, is shot dead by gunmen believed to be working for Iranian security forces. |
Nov 17, 1993 | Amnesty International includes Baluchis in a list of groups especially subject to human rights violations in Iran. |
Feb 2, 1994 | Demonstrators in Sistan-Baluchistan attack public buildings and military vehicles in Zahedan, the province's capital, on the 15th anniversary of Iran's Islamic revolution. |
Feb 6, 1994 | The Iranian government reinforces security forces in Sistan-Baluchistan due to clashes between police and armed protestors who were denouncing Iran's demolition of a Sunni mosque in the city of Mashad in the province of Khorastan. 21 protestors and 4 security men are killed and at least 30 are wounded. The government claims that the unrest was caused by drug smugglers. |
Oct 27, 1994 | Deutsche Presse Agentur reports that a self-proclaimed Baluch National Council has called for a special status for the Sunni-dominated Sistan-Baluchistan region within the Iranian Shi'i theocracy. |
Jun 7, 1995 | A group of 97 "bandits", including Abdollah Lushari a member of the Baluchi nationalists and 20 of his men, surrender to government forces. |
Mar 10, 1996 | Reformers gain a majority of seats in first round polls. (ABC CLIO) |
Apr 21, 1996 | Conservative parliamentarians in Iran's Islamic consultative Assembly lost more seats in the run off elections held on April 19. (ABC CLIO) |
May 23, 1997 | Khatami, a moderate, is elected president with 69% of the vote. Khatami promised in the campaign to reduce censorship and support a diversity of attitudes. (ABC CLIO) |
Oct 25, 1998 | Conservatives dominate election to the council of experts when many of the reformist candidates were disqualified. (ABC CLIO) |
Mar 8, 1999 | Moderates win in first local elections in 20 years. (ABC CLIO) |