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This report focuses on the persecution of the largely Sunni Muslim Baluch population in the Sistan-Baluchistan Province of Iran and the insurgency it has triggered. Tehran claims that the bases of the two main Baluch insurgents groups, Jundullah and Jaish-ul Adl, are in Pakistan’s Baluchistan Province, which shares a 1,165-kilometre border with Iran. As a result, Iranian forces are increasingly carrying out cross-border attacks against these groups, and are thus straining relations between Iran and Pakistan and possibly fueling sectarian violence in both countries.