State of minorities & human rights in Iran
(9th Session of the United Nations Forum on Minority Issues, 2016)
After Islamic revolution in Iran, there was a committee selected by top revolutionary figures
surrounding supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini (1980 AD), to create the Constitution of
Islamic Republic of Iran, but there was a very tough and strict order from supreme leader
that; the constitution should be based purely on Shiite Sharia law and by those who has
expert in this regards, therefore the committee had no representative from women which
make %50 of population, no representative from ethno-linguistic minorities which make
about a bit more than %65 of population, and no representative from none-Shia religion
people which make about %20 of population of Iran.
You may see the order of Ayatollah Khomeini about Constitution here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke0k9bclwdY
( ینیمخ هلا تیآ مایپ تئارق1358 یناجنسفر یمشاه طسوت )یسمش: باطم دصرددص یتسیاب ناریا یمالسا یروهمج یساسا نوناق
نانز روضح عقاو رد( دنراد ار یساسا نوناق نیودت قح یناحور نیدهتجم طقف و دشاب یرشع ینثا هعیش یعرش نیناوق، هتیلم و ماوقا
)دندش عونمم ادیکا یساسا نوناق هیهت رد هعیش ریغ بهاذم و نایدا.
The demands of indigenous people and ethnic minority/nationality groups in the region of
North of Khorasan from the government of Iran is overlooked entirely. Education and
teaching in Kurdish - Kurmanji language is one of the cultural demands of the indigenous
people in the region of North of Khorasan from the state administration of President Rohani
(so called government of devise and hope), and it was one of his promises to the Iranian
ethnic nationality groups, which is completely legal based on article 15 and 19 of Iran’s
constitution law and the international conventions which has signed by state of Iran, but our
legal demand is not attained in the schools of North of Khorasan region yet (Minister of
Education, is direct responsible for this discrimination, injustice and human inequality), there
is no any plan about Kurdish - Kurmanji language in the universities of North of Khorasan
neither to get student to begin study for academic degrees in this field and nor to train
academic staff and teachers for Kurdish - Kurmanji language in the region. The faculty
members of universities in North of Khorasan are mostly exotic and not from native regional
people, which is feasibly formed and organized deliberately, to distort and destroy the
indigenous ethnic nationality identities in this region, most of the people in the region are
unhappy and worried too much in this regards. This situation and mentality must be changed
and education in native mother language to be started in the region as soon as possible.
In this regards you may see a demanding letter to UN about human rights breaches
(including education in Kurdish – Kurmanji language) in North of Khorasan region, here:
http://www.kurmanj.org/e n/module s.php?name =Ne ws&file =article &sid=8
Also you may see a recent case (25 August 2016) which a teacher got captured (and is
under pressure, oppression, torture etc. in prison), just because of teaching Kurdish
language (Bojnurd, North of Khorasan) here;
http://www.nnsroj.com/fa/de tile s.aspx?id=100792