Filling in the remaining corner

I've mentioned unrest in Iran in three corners of Iran. In the southeast, the Balochs oppose Iran in Sistan-Balochistan. In the southwest, there is Arab unrest in Khuzestan. And in the northwest, Kurdish rebels have been sparring with Iranian forces lately.

I haven't mentioned any similar unrest in northeast Iran. However, a report this week might indicate all is not well there either.

A senior commander of the State Security Forces, Iran’s paramilitary police, in the northern province of Golestan was killed by unknown assailants, state media reported on Monday.

Hassan Mohammad-Pour, the deputy commander of the SSF in Golestan Province, was killed while driving in his car on Saturday.

The incident occurred on the road to Tapeh-Zibashahr in the province.

Prior to receiving his post in Golestan, Mohammad-Pour was a senior police commander in the southern Iranian city of Zahedan.

Golestan is in northeast Iran, at the southeast corner of the Caspian Sea.

The SMCCDI adds this:

No details about the attack, nor any information on the identity and fate of the 'assailants' have been communicated; but the attack confirms the increasing use of violence against the Islamic regime's symbols of power and agents by an increasing number of exasperated Iranians.

Who knows what this was about. It's interesting to note Mohammad-Pour was previously posted in Zahedan. This is the captial of Sistan-Balochistan province. Perhaps some Balochs went after him up in Golestan to settle a score.

Regardless, the Iranian regime's hold on the country is not an iron grip. Yesterday, for instance, there was a student protest in Tehran.

At least one thousand students demonstrated inside Tehran University’s Social Studies Faculty on Tuesday.

The students protested against the decision to ban a seminar they had planned on the issue of democracy. They chanted slogans against systematic crackdowns on campuses by authorities.

One of the students managed to address the demonstrators from the tribune of the main hall.

The protest had the support of many of the university professors.

There are opportunities in Iran to push against the regime. Military action does not have to be our first course of action, but there must be some action, and soon.