伊朗正面临东南部分离主义武装袭击激增的挑战，这进一步加剧了该国的安全压力，而美国威胁重新发动空袭也使伊朗保持高度警惕。
Iran is battling a surge in attacks by separatist militants in its southeast, compounding the country’s security challenges while it’s on alert amid US threats of renewed airstrikes.
据伊朗国家媒体报道，过去三周，伊朗安全部队在锡斯坦和俾路支斯坦省至少有八名成员被杀。该省是逊尼派多数地区，与巴基斯坦和阿富汗接壤，边境多孔，同时也是伊朗俾路支民族少数群体的聚居地。
At least eight members of Iran’s security forces have been killed in the past three weeks in the Sistan and Baluchestan province, according to state media. The province is a Sunni-majority region that shares a porous border with Pakistan and Afghanistan and is also home to Iran’s Baluch ethnic minority.
半官方通讯社法尔斯社报道，周三，一名警察和伊朗巴斯志愿军的一名女成员在靠近梅赫雷斯坦镇的一次武装分子袭击中成为最新遇难者。
A police officer and female member of Iran’s Basij militia were the latest to be killed in an attack by armed militants close to the town of Mehrestan on Wednesday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
其他最近的伤亡还包括一名在“与敌方支持的恐怖分子对抗”中牺牲的伊朗革命卫队高级指挥官，以及一名在路边炸弹爆炸中遇难的省级官员。这一消息由国家报纸《哈姆沙赫里》和伊斯兰共和国通讯社报道。
Other recent casualties include a senior IRGC commander who died “while confronting enemy-backed terrorists” and a provincial official who was killed in a roadside bomb, according to the state-run Hamshahri newspaper and Islamic Republic News Agency.
暴力事件的最新激增发生在美国和以色列对伊朗的战争即将进入第九个月之际，华盛顿和德黑兰在争夺波斯湾战略要地霍尔木兹海峡的控制权上仍然僵持不下。
The latest spike in violence comes as the US-Israeli war against Iran nears its ninth month and Washington and Tehran remain deadlocked over their efforts to control the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
美国总统特朗普表示，美国“可能”在11月3日的中期选举前对伊朗采取行动。伊朗陆军总司令阿米尔·哈塔米上周表示，战争尚未结束，军队将保持戒备，以防美国进一步发动袭击。这一消息由半官方通讯社塔斯尼姆社报道。
US President Donald Trump said the US “may” act against Iran before midterm elections on Nov. 3. Iran’s army chief Amir Hatami said last week that the war hasn’t ended and the military would maintain its readiness in case of further American attacks, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
多年来，伊朗当局一直在锡斯坦和俾路支斯坦省与武装逊尼派 insurgents 作斗争，并经常指责美国和以色列利用诸如正义军（Jaysh al-Adl）之类的武装组织制造不稳定。正义军既被伊朗也被美国列为恐怖组织。
Iranian authorities have for years fought armed Sunni insurgents in Sistan and Baluchestan, which is Iran’s poorest province, often accusing the US and Israel of using militant groups like Jaysh al-Adl to foment instability. Jaysh al-Adl is designated a terrorist group by both Iran and the US.
上周，一个议会代表团由于对冲突的担忧以及美以战争的影响，访问了该省。
A parliamentary delegation visited the province last week due to concerns over the clashes and the impact of the US-Israeli war.
国会议员和安全官员“检查了伊斯兰革命卫队正在进行的边境墙建设和封锁行动”，国会国家安全与外交政策委员会成员法达霍塞因·马莱基在接受半官方塔斯尼姆新闻社采访时表示。
Lawmakers and security officials “inspected the border wall construction and sealing operations being carried out by the IRGC,” Fadahossein Maleki, a member of parliament’s national security and foreign policy commission, said in an interview with the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
贫困、劳工权利、水资源短缺以及国家对俾路支人边缘化的现状引发了针对地方当局的频繁抗议，这些抗议常常演变为流血事件。
Poverty, workers’ rights, water scarcity and the state’s marginalization of ethnic Baluchis stoke frequent protests against local authorities that often turn deadly.
2021年，安全部队在一次抗议中向聚集在边境哨所的燃料商人开火，导致至少12人死亡。2022年，人权组织表示，在“女性生命自由”运动期间，安全部队在扎赫丹向抗议者开火，造成至少96人死亡。
In 2021, security forces killed at least 12 people when they opened fire on fuel traders who’d swarmed a border post during a protest. In 2022, rights groups said at least 96 people were killed by security forces when they opened fire on protests in Zahedan during the Woman Life Freedom movement.