{"id":332111,"date":"2025-05-27T21:58:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T20:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=332111"},"modified":"2025-05-27T21:58:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T20:58:23","slug":"senior-iranian-military-officials-trip-to-impoverished-sistan-and-baluchestan-revealed-tehrans-true-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/senior-iranian-military-officials-trip-to-impoverished-sistan-and-baluchestan-revealed-tehrans-true-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Iranian Military Official\u2019s Trip to Impoverished Sistan and Baluchestan Revealed Tehran\u2019s True Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_332112\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-332112\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-332112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Major-General-Mohammad-Bagheri-center-speaks-to-reporters-during-his-visit-to-Sistan-and-Baluchistan-e1748379013680.jpg\" alt=\"Major General Mohammad Bagheri (center) speaks to reporters during his visit to Sistan and Baluchistan \u2014 May 20, 2025\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Major-General-Mohammad-Bagheri-center-speaks-to-reporters-during-his-visit-to-Sistan-and-Baluchistan-e1748379013680.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Major-General-Mohammad-Bagheri-center-speaks-to-reporters-during-his-visit-to-Sistan-and-Baluchistan-e1748379013680-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Major-General-Mohammad-Bagheri-center-speaks-to-reporters-during-his-visit-to-Sistan-and-Baluchistan-e1748379013680-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Major-General-Mohammad-Bagheri-center-speaks-to-reporters-during-his-visit-to-Sistan-and-Baluchistan-e1748379013680-746x420.jpg 746w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Major-General-Mohammad-Bagheri-center-speaks-to-reporters-during-his-visit-to-Sistan-and-Baluchistan-e1748379013680-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Major-General-Mohammad-Bagheri-center-speaks-to-reporters-during-his-visit-to-Sistan-and-Baluchistan-e1748379013680-696x392.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-332112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Major General Mohammad Bagheri (center) speaks to reporters during his visit to Sistan and Baluchistan \u2014 May 20, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"413\" data-end=\"546\"><em data-start=\"523\" data-end=\"546\"><strong data-start=\"524\" data-end=\"545\">Two-minute read<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"548\" data-end=\"867\">On May 20, 2025, Major General Mohammad Bagheri, Chief of Staff of the regime\u2019s Armed Forces, made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabnak.ir\/fa\/news\/1306775\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high-profile visit<\/a> to Sistan and Baluchistan\u2014one of Iran\u2019s most impoverished and restive provinces. The purpose: overseeing the expansion of a massive border wall along Iran\u2019s eastern frontiers with Pakistan and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"869\" data-end=\"1320\">During the trip, Bagheri inspected military outposts in Mirjaveh and Saravan and visited a factory producing 4-meter-high concrete segments that form part of the wall. The structure, equipped with advanced surveillance systems such as drones, motion sensors, and panoramic cameras, is portrayed as a key tool for combating terrorism, smuggling, and illegal crossings. Bagheri stated that Iran could construct up to 600 kilometers of the wall per year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1322\" data-end=\"1798\">This multi-year project\u2014estimated to cost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mashreghnews.ir\/news\/1717003\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over $3.25 billion USD<\/a>\u2014is being led by the Revolutionary Guard\u2019s engineering units. Though framed as a security imperative, it starkly illustrates the clerical regime\u2019s priorities. In a province plagued by chronic underdevelopment, where many residents lack access to clean water, healthcare, and education, even a fraction of that budget could have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/stats-tell-why-irans-sistan-and-baluchestan-province-proved-regimes-crackdown-useless\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">significantly improved lives<\/a>. Instead, the regime has chosen walls over welfare.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> News: Regime Expands Security Apparatus in Sistan and Baluchestan Amid Resistance and Repression<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xRGwChwFD0\">https:\/\/t.co\/xRGwChwFD0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1914790564706574575?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1800\" data-end=\"2279\">The timing of Bagheri\u2019s visit further underscores the regime\u2019s insecurity. It occurred just days before Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isna.ir\/news\/1404030502640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sharif arrived in Tehran<\/a> for talks on what the state framed as &#8220;regional stability&#8221; and &#8220;cooperation.&#8221; While the regime staged warm diplomatic overtures in Tehran, it was simultaneously entrenching a physical and symbolic barrier along the shared border\u2014revealing a profound distrust not just toward its neighbor, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/society\/iran-sistan-and-baluchestan-province-blood-and-pain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">toward the very population<\/a> of Sistan and Baluchistan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2281\" data-end=\"2649\">During a provincial strategy session held as part of the visit, Bagheri and top military, clerical, and administrative figures focused almost exclusively on security coordination. He lauded the readiness of deployed forces and praised their performance\u2014language that pointedly ignored the deep socio-economic grievances that have fueled unrest in the region for years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Protests in Iran\u2019s Sistan and Baluchistan: Overview and Origins<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sistan_Baluchestan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Sistan_Baluchestan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Baluchestan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Baluchestan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Saravan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Saravan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4CQLnxtwGc\">https:\/\/t.co\/4CQLnxtwGc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1366486399050915840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2651\" data-end=\"2937\">This is not merely about border control. The wall represents the clerical regime\u2019s wider approach to governance: securitize, surveil, and suppress. For Tehran, Sistan and Baluchistan is not a region in need of investment and inclusion\u2014it is a vulnerability to be fenced off and watched.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2939\" data-end=\"3108\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">As concrete slabs rise along the eastern borders, they do so not as shields for the people, but as monuments to a regime that fears its margins more than it serves them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-minute read On May 20, 2025, Major General Mohammad Bagheri, Chief of Staff of the regime&rsquo;s Armed Forces, made a high-profile visit to Sistan and Baluchistan&mdash;one of Iran&rsquo;s most impoverished 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