The Baluchi Autonomist Movement (BAM) was an ethnic Baluchi guerrilla movement in Iranian Balochistan during the 1980s. The movement was supported by the

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

i government. The BAM's main demands were limited autonomy and economic concessions for Iranian Baluchis. After the

Iran–Iraq War The Iran–Iraq War was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. It began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran and lasted for almost eight years, until the acceptance of United Nations Security Council ...

, the BAM members fled to neighboring Arab

Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf ( fa, خلیج فارس, translit=xalij-e fârs, lit=Gulf of Persis, Fars, ), sometimes called the ( ar, اَلْخَلِيْجُ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a Mediterranean sea (oceanography), me ...

nations, which led to the dissolution of the group. Today it is believed that BAM divided into many groups, one of them being Jundallah, previously known as ''Jondollah''.

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* Albert J. Jongman, Alex Peter Schmid
''Political Terrorism: A New Guide to Actors, Authors, Concepts, Data Bases, Theories, & Literature''
Transaction Publishers, 2005. , Baloch nationalist militant groups Baloch people 1980s in Iran National liberation movements Paramilitary organisations based in Iran Balochistan Nationalist organizations Militant opposition to the Islamic Republic of Iran {{Iran-hist-stub

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