Iran guards 'killed in clash' on Pakistan border

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6. IIRC, currently we're in the 3rd wave of this kind of thing.

It's been going on for a couple of decades. There have been periods of this kind of insurgency before.

It's what happens when you get tired of being the objects of somebody else's empire. (We think of the US as being imperialist when it comes to Iran--but it's real easy to forget that the current Iran is the rump of a formerly larger empire and still contains subject peoples. Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Arabs, Balochs, Tadzhiks ... They were conquered, occpuied, partly settled, and still kept in check when they dare to get uppity and dare to resist their Aryan overlords.)