Baloch wedding strike kills four, deepens resentment over civilian toll

On the first of September, a blast struck a wedding gathering in Kuhestak, a small Baloch coastal town in southern Iran, killing at least four people — among them a four-year-old child — and wounding more than sixty others. What was meant to be a night of celebration became a scene of ruin, drawing into sharp relief the enduring vulnerability of communities caught between powers that do not answer to them. In the days that followed, silence was enforced as much as grief: internet restrictions and warnings against speaking to foreign media suggested that the right to mourn publicly was itself c