Shirani (Baluch)
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The Shirani are a 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....

 tribe in Sistan and Baluchestan Province in 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...

. They are said to derive from the Narouie tribe. After Sardar Hossein Khan Shirani, all his descendants took the name Shirani as the tribal name. Sardar Hossein Khan Shirani raised a major revolt against the Persian Qajar dynasty and took control of the Bampour castle in 1897. The Baloch Shiranis of Sistan and Baluchestan Province reside mainly around the Lashar area and specifically in the town of Fanouj(Panouch).
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