This Time, the Islamic Regime Is the Only Minority Group in IranCommentary
Iran, as one of the old civilizations in the Middle East, represents a heterogeneous state, consisting of many ethnic, religious, and linguistic populations. Historically, all these populations regardless of their place of habitat, identified with Iran as a historical entity.
After the Islamic Revolution of 1979, ethnic and religious minorities encountered a new constitution that aimed to define an Islamic state based on Sharia law with Shia supremacy. This law focused on Ummah (a commonwealth of Muslim believers) rather than the unity of the nation, and subsequently excluded all religious minorities, some of whom belonged to different disadvantaged ethnicities that lived in deprived areas. As a result, ethnic and religious minorities faced systematic discrimination and, at some point, considered their identity as threatened....
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