Saravan is a city in and the capital of Saravan County

Saravan County

Saravan County is a county in Sistan and Baluchistan in Iran, near to the international border of Pakistan. The capital of the county is Saravan...

, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

. At the 2006 census, its population was 58,652, in 10,078 families.

Saravan lies in the Iranian Balochistan, close to the international border of Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. The inhabitants of the city are Balochi and speak the Balochi language

Balochi language

Balochi is a Northwestern Iranian language. It is the principal language of the Baloch of Balochistan, Pakistan, eastern Iran and southern Afghanistan. It is also spoken as a second language by some Brahui. It is designated as one of nine official languages of Pakistan.-Vowels:The Balochi vowel...

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It is the center of Saravan County

Saravan County

Saravan County is a county in Sistan and Baluchistan in Iran, near to the international border of Pakistan. The capital of the county is Saravan...

. The city lies in a long valley in the south of Masheked and north of Makran

Makran

The present day Makran is a semi-desert coastal strip in the south of Sindh, Balochistan, in Iran and Pakistan, along the coast of the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman. The present day Makran derived its name from Maka, a satrap of Achaemenid Empire....

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Attacks on public figures

Saravan is the location of many attacks, presumably by Baloch

Baloch people

The Baloch or Baluch are an ethnic group that belong to the larger Iranian peoples. Baluch people mainly inhabit the Balochistan region and Sistan and Baluchestan Province in the southeast corner of the Iranian plateau in Western Asia....

 insurgents.

• Justice Judge Ebrahim Karimi was assassinated
• Rare suicide bombing kills four