Iran appoints first Baluch governor in restive province

Iran’s government on October 30 appointed the first governor from the Baluch minority in the country’s restive southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan. “Mansour Bijar was chosen as the governor of Sistan-Baluchistan,” government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani said after a cabinet meeting. Bijar, 50, hails from the Baluch community, a mainly Sunni Muslim ethnic group in a majority...