In remote Iranian Province Sistan-Baluchistan, women politicians make gains at ballot box | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

IRAN, May 26, 2017: Iran’s sprawling southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan Province is notorious for insecurity, poverty, drug trafficking, and deadly clashes between security forces and militants. More recently, however, it made headlines this month for sweeping a record number of women onto city and village councils. Officials say the number of women elected to local councils in the…