 Soon after the 1979 revolution, Sunni leaders from Kurdistan, Balouchistan, and Khorassan, set up a new party known as "Shams", which is short for Shora-ye Markaz-e al Sunaat, to unite Sunnis and lobby for their rights.But six months after that they were closed down, bank accounts suspended and had their leaders arrested by the government on charges that they were backed by Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.A UN human rights report states that