Posted on 05/28/2016 4:01:37 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Iran is an artificial country which includes a large number of ethnic groups: Persians, Azars, Kurds, Turkmen, Baloch, Arabs and more....
Southwestern Iran, the Khuzistan region, is home to the Arab minority group, but that is where most of the oil and gas resources are to be found underground, right under the feet of that Arab minority. They are Shiites, exactly like the majority Persians, but are treated with disdain by the government. In the past, the region was called Arabistan to allude to the ethnic group living there, but after the 1925 Persian Conquest, the Persians changed its name to Khuzistan in an attempt to hide its Arab character. Today it is called Ahwaz...
The area's size is over 60,000 sq. kilometers, three times the size of the State of Israel, but its population, numbering 4.5 million, is half that of Israel. Although most of Iran's gas and oil reserves are in the region, most of the Arab population gets nothing out of it, and probably even suffers from it.
The Arab rulers do not recognize the Arab group.....As a result, agricultural lands near the rivers are starved for water and many of the Arab villagers found themselves without a source of income. Most of them moved to the cities where they live in abject poverty.
The oil fields in the Ahwaz region attract companies that drill, produce and refine the oil, both Western and Chinese, causing massive pollution - to the point where it is dangerous to remain in the region. The Iranian regime is indifferent to this population's suffering, leading them to demonstrate in 2005 for recognition as a collective and cease operations whose aim is to steal the natural resources of the region. The regime dispersed the demonstrators, killing hundreds in the process.
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Sad, but true.
All or most countries are artificial if looked at this way.
Britons, Welsh, Scott’s, Angles Irish = UK
The headline would make more sense if Persia were not in fact a nation dating back to antiquity.
Islam is erzatz...
Hussein helped to quash the green revolution, jihadi that he is.
US - Socialists/Commies, Constitutionalists, Krony Krapatilusts, Watermelons, etc.
Today’s Iran is not Persia. The Arabs and the Turks have destroyed all. Islamic hordes have stripped clean any Persian character. Today’s “Persian” Nationalism is purely anti-Arab and anti-Jew Nationalism where they hate their semitic neighbors.
No it’s not. If anything, the mullahs reactionary direction away from the Pahlavi’s secular Pre-islamic nationalism reinvigorated it.
Religious observance plummeted since 1980, and the regime is dependent upon the rural areas for support.
First, the mullahcracy has to be beheaded; then their fissile material processing facilities (underground or not) have to be destroyed; then, well, make sure the various factions and ethnic groups don’t run out of ammo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balochistan#Demography
Bkmrk.
Betrayed? What a joke. What should the west do? Drop some thermonuclear devices? Muslims hating on other muslims. Let them sort out their own crap.
Let me guess: Iran is actually the property of the Kurds.
I don’t agree.
Iraq on the other hand, is.
Not sign deals with Iran.
The Sykes-Picot Treaty created most of these countries without regard to religion, tribal affiliation, political persuasion or geography.
Iran wasn’t in it. Sykes-Picot was about dividing the Ottoman Empire, and Iran was not effected.
But it’s all moot. If there is an Arab minority smack dab in the middle of the Iranian oil belt, and they’re being oppressed and robbed, they are a potential ally of convenience for Israel and a Trump presidency. Attacking Iran militarily is problematic at best. Politically, however, I now see some distinct possibilities.
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Persia is an ancient nation. Since they've changed their name to Iran (Aryan) and rid themselves of a 2,500 year old monarchy to adopt the tenets of radical Islam, the case can be made. However it's a Persian population, and the ruling mullahs are Persian, not Arab. Perhaps artificial culture would be a more apt description.
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