GENEVA, 5 March, 2021 (TON): On Friday, the UN said that at least a dozen up to 25 casualties have resulted on Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province.

The Revolutionary Guards and security forces have used force against the fuel couriers and protestors, as per the UN.

The shooting of people carrying fuel across the border led to protests that spread from the city of Saravan to other areas in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, including the capital, Zahedan.

“The series of violent events and unrest began on 22 February, when Revolutionary Guards are alleged to have shot and killed at least 10 fuel couriers, known as sookhtbar, in Sistan and Baluchistan Province at the border with Pakistan, after a two-day stand-off triggered by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps blocking the road to the city of Saravan,” U.N. human rights spokesman Rupert Colville told.

Iran has been fighting smuggling to neighboring countries for its lowest fuel prices in the world.

As a result of the massacres, several demonstrations erupted in the region and faced violent ammunition that shot protestors and bystanders.