Posted on 01/14/2008 2:39:53 AM PST by SatinDoll
Facing ethnic revolts in both Baluchistan and Kur distan, the last thing that Tehran might have wanted was a similar problem in another corner of Iran with a non-Persian majority. Yet that seems to be happening in Golestan, one of Iran's 30 provinces, with the ethnic Turkmen community seething with anger against Tehran. It all started on Jan. 4, when a gunboat of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shot and killed a 20-year-old Turkmen fisherman in the coastal waters of the Caspian Sea. The authorities claim that the fisherman, one Hissmauddin Khadivar, had been part of an illegal fishing expedition whose 30 or so members were later arrested and that his death was an accident.
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MOre unrest in Iran?
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving place.
If the iranian govt. is about to topple do ya think we’d send troops to help stabalize things and help prop up this boogie man?
CIA, MI6, and/or Mossad at work?
Is this somehow supposed to be funny?
That is what I thought but then again there are a lot of factions getting pushed around by the revolutionary guard.
From ethnics to students to minorities.
Let’s just hope the current govt. falls by popular demand.
Could be. Still, the MO here looks very familiar to that employed in Afghanistan in December 2001 and January 2002.
Yes it is supposed to be funny but nothing would surprise me with this group.
It won’t be popular demand. It will take popular action, and lots of it.
Hopefully, we have covert ops in place to hasten that prospect.
Have to believe there still are some sane folks in Iran that care to throw off the yoke of repression in Iran.
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“...All top jobs in Golestan and in Turkmen towns in other provinces are held by Shiites from other parts of Iran. The government prefers to employ migrant workers from Afghanistan and Baluchistan to work in the Turkmen area’s vast state-owned cotton fields...Iran has deprived many Turkmens of a traditional source of income.”
“Tehran has also imposed central control on water distribution from the River Atrak, reserving the bulk of it for farms... owned by rich mullahs and Guard commanders, where few Turkmens work. Turkmen farmers...are left with little or no water.”
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A tyranny can only survive as long as there is justice. In Iran there is none. And the Persians are a minority! This situation stands a slim chance of surviving for much longer.
You sound informed and more then reasonable.
Thanks for the input. Good job.
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