Ethnic Minorities

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May 22, 2026

Ethnic Minorities

Majid Elhami in conversation with Ali Kalai: We feel that there is a plan in place that Khuzestan does not see prosperity and development.

He says that in his opinion the main issue is dam construction. He is not aware of several existing dams on the Karun River for water control. In his opinion, this is “a kind of water storage and transfer.” The monthly magazine “Peace Line” in this issue, considering the recent protests in Khuzestan province and […]...

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Created By: Ali Kalaei
August 23, 2021

Suicide and its relationship with poverty in Kurdistan/Bahar Abbasi

Conclusion As mentioned, suicide is one of the leading causes of death in the world, and it is not limited to a specific country or ethnicity. There are multiple factors involved in the occurrence of suicide, and theorists have presented various opinions about its causes. Factors such as literacy rate, unemployment rate, divorce, poverty, generation […]...

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Created By: Bahar Abbasi
February 19, 2021

The key to solving minority issues lies in the hands of the political system; a conversation with Ahmad Bakharai/Conversation with Simin Rouzgar.

In Iran, there are minorities that have significant differences compared to the official and recognized minorities, such as the black community in southern Iran, the Khavari people in Khorasan, the Maraghi people in Almut, the nomadic Koli people, and other groups that may not have been studied or researched yet. These minorities do not have […]...

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Created By: Simin Rouzgard
October 22, 2020

“African minority in the port of Bushehr/Siamak Malamahmoudi”

Sources: 1 – The Book of Slavery and Trade in the Persian Gulf, written by Thomas Ricks and John Bartley, translated by Hassan Zanganeh, 2004. 2 – Slavery in the Persian Gulf, Donya-e-Eqtesad Newspaper, July 16, 2013. 3 – The Prohibition of Slavery in the Persian Gulf during the Naseri Era, Zahra Marvoti, Journal of […]...

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Created By: Siamak Molamohammadi
October 22, 2020

In my homeland, there are unknown identities in Sistan and Baluchestan/Miran Bahouti.

More than a hundred years have passed since the opening of birth certificates to the lives of Iranians, but after a century, there are still people who remain without birth certificates. These are people whose Iranian roots and heritage date back more than a century, but living in remote areas has deprived them of having […]...

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Created By: Miran Bahuti
October 22, 2020

National and racial discrimination continues with denial and belittlement / Elaheh Amani

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, an American sociologist, expressed his concern about the use of the concept of race to explain the biological superiority of white people in his works over a hundred years ago. He did not believe in categorizing humans based on skin color and saw this as a feature of cultural and […]...

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Created By: Elahe Amani
October 22, 2020

The different process of parenting in the West and Iran/Bahar Abbasi

Slavery is a violent social institution, an inhumane and exploitative practice by humans against humans. Every conscious individual should take a stand against slavery, whether in ancient times or in modern forms, and strive against it. It must be acknowledged that slavery has existed in its own particular style and context in the history of […]...

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Created By: Bahar Abbasi
October 22, 2020

Kulbar; Non-citizenship with the burden of life on their shoulders/ Ronaak Faraji

Kolbari, which has become a familiar concept in the vocabulary of language speakers living in the geographical regions of Iran, has become a symbol of endless suffering and pain for the human beings who originate from the systematic discrimination of the ruling system in the western and northwestern border regions of this geography. Kolbari is […]...

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Created By: Ronak Faraji
January 21, 2020

Sistan and Baluchestan; Center of Poverty and Educational Deprivation/ Iman Farahi

Sistan and Baluchestan province suffers from numerous educational problems. These problems can be seen in the areas of hardware, infrastructure, and software, and unfortunately, instead of allocating more funds to reduce these problems and improve the educational situation, officials have reduced the necessary budget for education and training in the 2018 budget. Clearly, with this […]...

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Created By: Iman Farahi
September 23, 2018