The Baloch Activists Campaign reported that Islamic Republic military forces, together with municipal agents,
raided the Keshavarz district of Zahedan and demolished dozens of homes belonging to Baloch residents.
The human rights news outlet, citing an informed source, wrote that these forces raided the area at dawn on Saturday, November 15, using loaders and excavators, and, employing violence and without prior warning, proceeded to demolish residential homes.
According to the report, before the demolitions began, the military forces warned residents that anyone who protested would face consequences and could be arrested and prosecuted.
The informed source added: "The demolitions are still ongoing."
The Baloch Activists Campaign wrote that Islamic Republic agencies, under the pretext of "national lands" and combating "land grabbing," have confiscated land belonging to Baloch residents in various areas, particularly in Zahedan and Chabahar.
The organization added that Islamic Republic officials are transferring these lands to individuals affiliated with the regime in order to "change the demographic makeup" of Sistan and Baluchestan.
Demolition of citizens' homes: similar cases
According to the Baloch Activists Campaign's 2024 annual report, in at least 30 documented cases, the homes of Baloch residents have been demolished under various pretexts across different areas of Sistan and Baluchestan.
Three Sunni religious schools and mosques, as well as, in some cases, the property of Baloch residents, have also been destroyed by military forces.
On February 26, 2025, Islamic Republic military and security forces, using light and semi-heavy weapons including RPGs, raided a residential home in the city of Chabahar in Sistan and Baluchestan province.
On November 30, 2023, Islamic Republic military agents also carried out a large-scale raid on the Shirabad district of Zahedan, extensively demolishing the homes of Baloch residents in the area.
The Halvash website, in a separate report on November 5 of that year, reported the sealing of several private elementary schools in impoverished and marginalized areas of Zahedan.
One of these schools, with at least 400 underprivileged students, was named "Neday-e Saadat" and was run in the Shirabad district under the auspices of the Sunni "Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas" religious school.
The Shargh newspaper, in an October 31, 2023 report, detailed the hardships of residents in the Shirabad district, writing: "A large population of people without identity documents lives in this under-resourced area of Zahedan, on the margins of the city, which seems to have been forgotten and is no longer counted as part of this land's geography by officials and the government, living amid great hardship."
Shirabad in Zahedan is among the areas that has repeatedly witnessed large-scale popular protests against the Islamic Republic.
Khodanoor Lajei, one of those killed on Zahedan's Bloody Friday, lived in the Shirabad neighborhood and, like many people in Sistan and Baluchestan, faced the problem of lacking identity documents.