“Smuggling and fuel smuggling”
Women Kolbars: The Burden of Poverty on Forgotten Shoulders/ Pardis Parsa
Kolbari, a practice most common in the provinces of Kurdistan, Kermanshah, and West Azerbaijan, is a phenomenon tightly intertwined with structural poverty, underdevelopment, and centralized governance policies. The state, through continuous underdevelopment of non-Shia and non-Persian regions, has exacerbated this issue—particularly in the Kurdish border areas. Years of neglect, historical insecurity, and a securitized view […]...
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Pardis Parsa
October 23, 2025
“Kulbari and fuel smuggling are the result of lack of social justice in Iran / Bahar Abbasi”
On the fifth day of Esfand month, military forces affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the border areas of Sistan and Baluchestan province opened fire on a group of Baloch fuel smugglers. As a result, several of the smugglers were killed or injured. The deceased were fuel smugglers who would buy fuel […]...
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Bahar Abbasi March 21, 2021
