A major armed confrontation erupted in southeastern Iran early Saturday as regime security forces traded fire with unidentified gunmen in a battle that reportedly left multiple people dead and wounded.
The violence unfolded in Saravan, a restive city in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan province near the Pakistani border, according to reports from the Baloch human rights organization Haalvsh and Iran International.
The circumstances surrounding the confrontation remain murky, with Iranian authorities and local sources offering different accounts of what happened and how many people were killed.
