The vast revenues that government accrues due to high global energy prices, not only gives
more power to suppress minorities, but also the appeasement policy of Russia, China and
also some EU (so called democratic) leaders and turning blind eyes on despotic Islamic
rulers, is an indirect confirmation and encouragement to this inhumanity and discrimination.
Minorities’ oppression is evident in many parts of Iran. They have boiled over into bitter
violence. The situation continues to deteriorate and they fear for their very survival, there
were eye gouging in Khorasan (Mashhad city) on 2007, and limbs amputation in Baluchistan
on 2008, and there are many executions by hanging them on the crane, and many cases of
raping and severe torturing and so on, across the State. The crisis is deepening, as
government-sponsored ideological armed forces (Pasdaran / IRGC) and Para-militia
(Basijis) continue to carry out massive human rights abuses against minorities.
World leaders and policy makers must insist that the rights of minorities and indigenous
people to be respected. The participation of minorities in the state affairs and electoral
representation is essential if conflict is to be prevented and lasting peace to be built.
The inclusion of minorities leads to the stronger and more cohesive societies. It is crystal
clear that exclusion results in instability, conflict, and in the most extreme cases leads to
genocide such as; gassing the Kurds in the city of Sardasht (although Supreme leader and
his surrounding figures tease and encouraged Saddam to invade Iran But the man-made
Sardasht’s disaster and crime, which have had disproportionate impact on the Kurds, could
be avoided through if the government of Islamic Iran let ethnic/national minorities to be
shared in the governing establishment power), mass grave in Khavaran, and many other
mass graves across Iran, massive oppression is on right now, and execution is on almost on
daily basis based on bogus allegations, which is so sad.
US, EU and UN should follow the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to
National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (UN resolution 47/135 of 18
December 1992) and also the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples and by that
to pressurize the Islamic republic rulers to respect the obligations.
We, as member of minorities want to ask international community to call on Iranian
Government to respond with policies that to address effectively the widespread, entrenched
and institutionalized discrimination, and the organized assimilation of languages & cultures in
the society of Iranian minorities. United Nations independent experts should inspect the
minorities’ situation, and also supervise the unfair elections that minorities have no
representatives. Iranian minorities have no cultural and civil forums, no political party is
allowed to be built on their own (for instance Organisation of Kurmanj People are not
allowed to do its activities in the region of North of Khorasan), and literary and academic
curricula in their languages are violently banned.
IRGC (ideological armed forces which is separated from regular state armed forces) and
Mullah’s performances as decision makers have been a dilemma so far, and it has been
failed. Their term as state rulers demonstrates key characteristics of social injustice,
unemployment, disorder, systemic corruption, nepotism, gender discrimination, inflation,
fundamentalist monopoly, unaccountability and state intervention businesses. With no growth
in infrastructure, the state remains undeveloped, especially in minorities regions. Opaqueness