Ameer Sardar Dost Mohammad Khan Baloch

Dost Mohammad Khan Baloch (also spelled Dust-Mohammad Khan Baluch; , Balochi: امیر سردار دوست محمد خان بارانزی بلوچ), also known as Mir Dost Muhammad Khan Baluch (died 16 January 1930), was a ruler in Iranian (Western) Baluchistan from 1921 until 1928.

Biography Dost Mohammad Khan was the nephew of the previous Baloch Barakzay (or Baranzai) ruler, Mir Bahram Khan. He succeeded his uncle in 1921, and was recognized as the hakem (i.e. governor) of Bampur by the Iranian Qajar government. The Baluch Barakzays had become the most powerful government in Iranian (Western) Baluchistan, due to their control over both Fahraj-Bampur and Saravan, as well as due to advantageous marriage alliance with rulers of the major towns and villages of Makran. Thus, Dost Mohammad Khan was left with a relatively small force and a few allies "of any consequence". As a result, a group of tribal leaders sent a mission to then Iranian King Ahmad Shah Qajar (1909–1925), requesting the Iranian state to send government forces to Baluchistan in order to deal with Dust Mohammad Khan. Such dissatisfactions and grievances by ordinary people and competing tribes in Baluchistan, but also Kurdistan and Khuzestan, resulted in aforementioned peoples welcoming the policies of Reza Shah aimed at disarming the powerful tribal groups in Iran.

Legacy The political scientist Hamid Ahmadi explains:

Dost Mohammad Khan is viewed as a martyr within the context of Baloch nationalism.