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Kurdish porters  ( kulbars ) continue to be killed and injured by regime agents  Aug 14, 2019  The Iranian regime has been targeting religious and ethnic minorities for many years. It has been reported that in the past few weeks, a number of Kurdish porters have been killed or injured by regime agents. Sources concerned with human rights have said that porters have been fired at by agents of the notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). A number of porters have been killed and dozens have been injured. Reports say that state security forces killed a young man identified as Reza Ebrahimi. Another porter was injured in the same incident. On another occasion, border patrol agents in the city of Sardasht in the western part of the country shot and injured a young porter. The relatives and friends of this victim identified as Younes Pirooti took him to the hospital for medical attention. He lives in a village close to the city of Sardasht. In a near...

The arrest of two Baha'i compatriots in Karaj Aug 7, 2019  Iran News:On Saturday, August 3, two Baha'i compatriots residing in Karaj, Ruhollah Zebayee and Abolfazl Ansari, were detained by security forces in their private homes and taken to an unknown location. until this moment no information is available on the arrestment reason  and keeping place of the two Baha'i citizens The mullahs' regime on unfounded grounds and only to create fear among the people, to the repression of religious and ethnic minorities Venture.

Iran Regime Executes 2 Ahvazi Arab Men Who Were Tortured to Make False Confessions Written by  Mansoureh Galestan  on  07 August 2019 . The Iranian regime has executed two members of the Ahvazi Arab minority population who were opponents of the regime. Abdullah Karmollah Chab and Ghassem Abdullah, from Iran’s Ahvazi Arab minority, were executed in the Fajr prison in the south-western city of Dezful, according to state media. They were executed on Sunday, August 4, 2019, following months of torture during which both were forced to make false confessions. The official IRNA news agency said Sunday the two men were convicted of “enmity against God”  (moharebeh) in connection with an armed attack in October 2015, which left two people dead. The men, however, had denied any involvement in the attack. Their lawyers had said there was no evidence linking them to the attack and have identified inconsistencies between the “confessions” that led to their convict...

Herald Middle East Mahdavi Nasim mahdavi85 The role and plight of ethnic minorities in Iranian society tend to receive little attention from Western analysts and policymakers. This may be largely due to the predominance of Tehran as the focal point of Iranian culture, politics, and foreign policy. Moreover, Iran’s ethnic minorities have been heavily marginalized by Iran’s Persian-dominated Shiite theocracy. The suppression of minority rights has resulted in ethnic insurgencies over the years, some of which continue to bedevil the Iranian regime. Nevertheless, many Iranian intellectuals, have come to view Iran’s ethnic minorities as an inseparable component of the national fabric. They have also come to realize that the Iranian regime’s repression and discrimination against minorities has not only slowed Iran’s advancement, but it could one day jeopardize the survival of the Islamic Republic, and even Iran’s territorial integrity And while the repression and...