Kekerasan di Sistan-Baluchestan itu bertepatan waktunya dengan bentrokan baru antara pasukan Iran dan pemberontak Kurdi di provinsi wilayah baralaut Azerbaijan Barat dekat perbatasan dengan Turki.
The unrest in Sistan-Baluchestan has coincided with renewed clashes between Iranian forces and Kurdish rebels in the northwestern province of West Azarbaijan close to the border with Turkey.