Former Chabahar MP reveals that Iran’s regime has confiscated 95% of ancestral lands in southern Sistan and Baluchistan while stripping the region’s youth of employment rights.
Former Chabahar representative Moein-od-Din Saeedi has exposed one of the largest land seizures in modern Iranian history, revealing that Iran’s regime has declared nearly 95 percent of ancestral lands in southern Sistan and Baluchistan as “national property” and confiscated them without valid documentation.
His statement on Thursday, November 14, 2025, underscores the depth of systematic dispossession imposed on the Baluch people, whose historical ownership is being erased to weaken their cultural identity and territorial rights.
For years, Iran’s regime has targeted the foundations of Baloch ownership through bureaucratic mechanisms designed to strip residents of legal protection. Saeedi explained that more than four thousand land cases were sent during his term to the Article 56 Commission of Natural Resources, a body composed of officials from the governor’s office, judiciary, agriculture ministry and natural resources administration.
Although presented as an administrative review system, the commission functions in practice as an instrument of mass expropriation. When Baloch citizens attempt to prove ownership of their ancestral properties, they are routinely referred to this commission, which almost invariably designates the land as “national” and leaves generations of families dispossessed.
The decisions of this commission are effectively unchallengeable, meaning that even centuries-old legal and customary deeds are overridden by the signatures of appointed officials loyal to Iran’s regime.
Saeedi stressed that many of the confiscated lands fall under legal exemptions and should rightfully be restored to the local population. Instead, Iran’s regime has intensified the process, closing every administrative channel that could return property to its legitimate owners.
This policy has run parallel with a second discriminatory measure imposed through the “Youthful Population Law,” which theoretically aims to encourage childbearing but has been weaponized against Sistan and Baluchistan. Despite the province having one of the highest birth rates in the country, local applicants are denied the hiring benefits granted under the law.
According to Saeedi, the result has been devastating. Non-local applicants, who receive preferential hiring scores based on the number of their children, are placed in government jobs across the province and subsequently transferred back to their home cities, leaving administrative positions empty and local communities deprived.
Schools in southern Baluchistan are left without teachers, and health centers operate without doctors or nurses. Administrative positions cycle through non-local employees, while the native youth—who face systematic exclusion—are left without employment opportunities. This policy has hollowed out public services and further marginalized a population already struggling under economic deprivation.
Critics argue that Iran’s regime is pursuing a deliberate policy designed to remove Baluch communities from their land while simultaneously weakening their economic and cultural presence.
The long-standing practice of declaring Baluch lands “national” has allowed the regime to allocate confiscated territory to military-economic conglomerates. Large-scale port, petrochemical and mining projects are built on these seized lands without the consent of the local population.
This pattern is not the result of administrative mismanagement but part of an organized campaign of demographic and economic engineering overseen directly by the regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei and the power structures around him.
As long as these policies continue, every Baluch born in their ancestral homeland becomes a temporary guest in their own land. The people of Baluchistan therefore insist that defending their soil, history and identity is a natural right.
They argue that self-defense and the struggle for their national rights are legitimate responses to decades of organized dispossession. Under Iran’s regime, the path to prosperity and dignity is deliberately blocked, and the people of Baluchistan maintain that they have the right to resist in order to reclaim what has been taken from them.
