Poverty And Human Rights Of Minorities In Iran

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Ziggurat of Chogha Zanbil. Ziggurat means "to build on a raised area“ It was built about 1250 BC by the king Untash

Ziggurat of Chogha Zanbil is an ancient Elamite complex

Model of Ziggurat of Chogha Zanbil.

In 1979, Ziggurat of Chogha Zanbil became the first Iranian site to be inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List .

University of East Anglia

The Ziggurat Building in the city of West Sacramento

John C. Hodges library at The University of Tennessee

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York City

The SIS or MI6 building at Vauxhall Cross , headquarters of the British Secret Intelligence Service

Poverty and Human Rights of Minorities in Iran BY Iranian Minorities Human Right Organisation (IMHRO)

Why Minorities are important?

Minorities and democracy, we should remember that:

No democracy is real without minorities’ right practised in it truly

Democracy is not only about majorities, it is also about minorities

We can not call a country a “Democratic” when it suppressing its own minorities

Iran in Middle East: The term "Middle East" may have originated in the 1850s in the British India Office , [1]

Origin of the name Iran

On March 21 , 1935 , Iran was officially accepted as the new name of the country. After Dr. Hjalmar Schacht , the Nazi Economics minister, commented on the Aryan origin of Persians, Reza Shah's ambassador in Germany encouraged him to issue the above-mentioned decree, asking all foreign delegates to use the word "Iran" (meaning "Land of the Aryans") instead of "Persia" in formal correspondence. The History of Iran, Elton Daniel, p.3

Ethnic Minorities in Iran

More than 50% of population is non Persian

Arabs 6 m

Baluches 6 m

Kurds 10 m

Lurs 5 m

Persian 14 m

Turks 25 m

Turkmen 4 m

Talysh 2 m

Total 72 m

Religious Minorities in Iran

Sunni

Jews

Christian

Bahá’í

Zoroastrianism

Sufi

Mandaeism

Buddhism

Baluch

Baluch in Iran

Baluch man hanged

Yaghub Mehrnahad

Bahá’í

Mojdeh Azizi, of Newcastle, with a photograph of her father and uncles, who were executed by the Iranian government for being members of the Baha’i faith.

Bahá’í

Iran charges 7 members of Baha'i faith with spying for Israel

Turkmen

Fishermen

Turk (Azeri)

Turks

Farhad Mohseni Negaristan

Jews: Babak Tehrani: 12 Persian Jews who were kidnapped by the Iranian secret police between 1994 and 1997 and have not been heard from since.

Kurds

Kurds: Kaveh Kamangar

Kurd: Ebrahim Lotf Allahi

Kurd: Mohammad Sadigh Kabodwand

Christian: Tina Rad

Christian: Flogging

LGBT`: Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni, 14 and 16 years old

The album Fundamental by the British musical group Pet Shop Boys is "Dedicated to Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni".

Women right: Pregnant Woman executed

Restricted Islamic dress code

Nafisa Azad: Arrest and harassment of women right activists

Zahra Bani Yaghub: a medical doctor and well-known campaigner for women's rights, was arrested in Hamadan, west of Tehran, and died after 24 hours of torture and alleged rape.

Funeral of Zahra Bani Yaghub

Robert A. “Bob” Levinson US Citizen Missing in Iran since March 2007

Case Of Ahwazi Arabs

Poverty and Human Right of Minorities in Iran

Ahwaz in Statistics

%33 of total water in Iran

%90 of Revenue of Iran

%15 of proved oil reserves in the world

2nd Gas Reserves in the world after Russia

Population 5 million people

%90 of population living under poverty line

Most of fuel for WW1 and WW2 came out of Abadan refinery

%15 of proved oil reserves in the world

William Knox D'Arcy

Unemployment is high and Arabs banned from working in oil industry

Water Problem

Marsh Arab

Huge dams taking water for Persian area

North of Tehran

Political Freedom: 17 years old Ali Afrawi

1925 occupation of Ahwaz by Persian

First oil well in Middle East April 1908

During last Shah of Iran

1979 Iranian Revolution

1980 Massacre of Mohammareh

Iran Embassy siege in London, 1980 led by Iraqi security service

Freedom of speech and communication

2005 Intifada or Demonstration

Reisan Sawari

Iran National-Socialist Party

Women Right: Ma’soumeh Ka’bi Mother and 5 children

Lack of investment in area

Food crises

Education

Land Confiscation

New cities Persian

Environment

8 years Iran Iraq War 1980-1988

2 millions displacement

explosive remnants of war (ERW) specially unexploded ordnance (UXO)

Mine fields: at least 20 million mines

Dates palm farms suffered

The Petrochemical Economic Zone (Petzone) The Petrochemical Economic Zone (Petzone) is located on the south-west of Iran at Arabic Gulf shore, within the boundaries of Mahshahr, a district of Bandar Imam Khomeini (BIK) .It covers an area of 2000 hectars (4940 avtes).

Petrochemical factory

Pollution

Sand Storms

Pollution

Mandaeism the followers of John the Baptist (Sabians )

Baptism

The only people which still speak Aramaic

Sign of Mandaeism

Mandaeism Baptism

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