Hosted the "National Press Club," the US capital, Washington, conference Wednesday, under the title of "the challenges of pluralism in Iran", to discuss national and religious situation of minorities and non-Persian peoples and persecution suffered at the hands of the Iranian regime.
And systems "Ahwaz Human Rights Organization" conference, in collaboration with "Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies," and was attended by Iranian and Arab and American experts, as well as politicians, academics and jurists of nationalities and ethnic and religious minorities in Iran.
The conference discussed the Iranian state structure based on national crisis Persian Shiite doctrine racist, and the abolition of ethnic, cultural and religious pluralism based and thus a violation of ethnic groups and other non-Persian ethnic and religious minorities that make up the mosaic of Iranian society rights.
The list of speakers included prominent members of the non-Persian ethnic organizations Ahwaz Arabs, Turks and Azeris, Baluchis, Kurds and Turkmen, and religious minorities such as Baha'is and Sunni Muslims, Christians and Jews and other minorities in Iran.
Iranian state structure
The conference was opened by Dr. Karim Abdian Bani Said, chairman of Ahwaz Human Rights Organization, the word of feet through About the problem of pluralism in Iran and the structure of the Iranian state, which does not allow the participation of the components of society with the State Administration, in addition to the persecution of ethnic, religious and discrimination by successive Iranian regimes against the people is Persian and religious minorities.
Bani Said stressed that "the Ahwazi Arab people who suffer from double discrimination, wants the right to self-determination, but peacefully through put Mazlomath and oppression and the Iranian government plans for the extermination of the international community."
For his part, Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, director of the Center for Development Studies Ibn Khaldun, spoke about the map of the spread of nationalities and minorities and the components of Iranian society, and said he was "supposed to Iran benefit from this human energy and the diversity in the development of the country and improve its service, but the ruling regime engaged in sectarian conflicts in the region. "
Nationalities and human rights
Afterwards, it has read the message of the conference is provided by Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize, which was unable to attend from London to Washington, where the letter asserted that the defense of the rights of oppressed ethnic and religious minorities in Iran is a fundamental element in the defense human rights.
Ebadi has criticized the Iranian constitution, which confirms that the Shiite doctrine of the official doctrine of the state and Persian only official language in the country.
For his part, Dr. occur. Mohammad Hassan Hussein Port, the international lawyer and professor in the field of human rights and the President of the Council Alomirka- Balushi, for Baluch in Iran and the situation presented statistics on the population of the areas of their deployment.
He also spoke about the poverty and marginalization they suffer who, in addition to a strategic location on the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman, and cultural and religious links with the Arabs.
Turning Dr. Habib Azar Sina, head of the Azerbaijani community in the United States, claims to cultural identity and racial rhetoric of the Azeri Turks in Iran.
He Adhirsina: "It is true that there are no executions against the Turks activists as they are against the Arabs, Kurds, Baloch activists, because the Iranian government is afraid of the census to the Turks Azeri nationalism as the biggest in the country, but the speech chauvinist anti-Turkish widespread and deeply rooted."
It participated Ava Homa, a writer and poet and university teacher Kurdish Iranian, in which she spoke the word of the figures for the persecution of the Kurds kinds of executions carried out against political prisoners to the oppression of women to suppress any cultural or political or social activity.
Sunnis in Iran
Dr. Mohammad Hassan Hussein Barr also spoke about the suffering of the Iranian year, he said, they make up about one-third of Iran's population, but they do not enjoy any rights and are denied the most basic rights Kaltmthel in state institutions, and asked if the deal with Sunni Muslims as well, let alone to deal with other religions ? "
Mehrangiz Kar also participated, an activist and lawyer Bazrh defend human rights in Iran for many years, and stressed in her speech that "Iran's future, no democracy without nationalism and the rights of minorities."
State of sectarian ideology
Dr. Ali al-Tai, the Arab Ahwaz academic and professor of sociology at the American University and author of "national identity crisis in Iran," he stressed in his speech that "the Iranian nation is not a national state but the state carry the ideology of sectarianism."
Tai felt that this state "unique in the 21st century in terms of sectarian and ethnic discrimination, have formed the ugliest form a political system ideological persecuted minority," and predicted that gets "a growing nationalist movement in Iran," the next phase.
He participated Bayazidi Salah, leader of the Iranian Kurdish Komala Party, a word which he said that the development of ethnic groups in Iran, did not arrive until the level of its neighbor Pakistan, which enjoys the nationalities areas of autonomy. "
He stressed that "the changes that have occurred to the Kurds in Iraq and Syria will affect the Kurds of Iran," and criticized at the same time the positions of the Iranian opposition and deemed "sympathetic to the regime of the mullahs in the suppression of ethnic minorities."
He also participated in the conference Joe Stock, director of the Middle East and North Africa department at the "Human Rights Watch", a speech in which he said "on Iran giving up its security policy toward nationalities."
Stoke said "everything that we talked with the Iranian government over the rights of ethnic groups are telling us that the border is threatened, for a period of 37 years repeating these words, and this is not only an excuse for the continuation of repression and oppression against ethnic minorities."
