I strongly recommend that responsible intergovernmental bodies such as UNESCO and UNICEF go beyond very soft documents towards incorporating Mother Language Education (MLE) indicators into their reporting requirements from governments. The present reporting mechanisms just neglect mother language education obligations of the States and therefore, indirectly encourages discriminatory and assimilatory policies and practices of many governments. It is time now to act and not to wait. We are gladly ready to help you in this regard. There is no safeguards for the protection, preservation and development of mother languages in Iran, no language academy for them, no NGOs or civil society who can freely take care of discriminated mother languages in Iran. On the contrary, mother language activists and researchers are arrested and imprisoned over their cultural activities. These efforts are regarded as acts against national security. At the end we urge the Islamic Republic of Iran to release, without any conditions, all of those language and civil rights activists from Azerbaijani Turks, Kurds, Arabs, Turkmen, Balochis and others who have been arrested and detained in the current month together with the protesters during mass protests that occurred after the rise in fuel prices. Thank you Amir Makouei 2