International Desk: Hyrbyair Marri, president of the Free Balochistan Movement, has issued a strongly worded statement on the ongoing tensions involving Iran and the United States, arguing that non-Persian ethnic groups remain central to the region’s future stability.
In a lengthy statement posted on X, Marri said that the United States and Israel had miscalculated by expecting “nations under Persian occupation” to rise against Tehran without direct assistance. He claimed that communities such as the Baloch, Ahwazi Arabs, Kurds and others had endured decades of persecution, displacement, torture and executions, leaving them unable to confront the Iranian state without material support.
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Marri argued that Iran’s defiant posture towards Washington demonstrated what he described as a long-standing pattern of hostility and repression against minority nations under Tehran’s control. He further claimed that the conflict had highlighted the strategic importance of the Strait of Hormuz, accusing Iran of using the vital trade corridor as a geopolitical pressure point.
According to the Baloch leader, Tehran is attempting to tighten its control over the strait, which he asserted lies largely alongside territories historically linked to the Baloch and Ahwazi Arab populations rather than ethnic Persians. He warned that any future agreement reached with Iran under current circumstances would effectively amount to “peace on Persian terms”.
Marri also alleged that Iran had mobilised thousands of Shia volunteers from allied groups, including Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces, Afghanistan’s Fatemiyoun Brigade and Pakistan-based Zainabiyoun fighters, to strengthen control over Baloch, Kurdish and Ahwazi regions while Iranian forces remain focused on tensions with the United States.
He claimed that greater backing from Washington and Israel for ethnic groups opposing Tehran could already have led to the collapse of the Iranian regime. Describing the lack of support as a “great miscalculation”, Marri argued that recognising the statehood aspirations of Baloch, Kurdish and Ahwazi Arab movements would offer a more sustainable solution to regional instability than continued negotiations with Tehran.
