ISLAMIC REPUBLE OF IRAN FALSE FROM THE START: 3/4: Iran is More Than Persia: Ethnic Politics in Iran Hardcover – by Brenda Shaffer
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🗓️ 29 December 2024
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https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/helicopter-iranian-presidents-convoy-accident-says-strate-tv-2024-05-19/
https://www.amazon.com/Iran-More-Than-Persia-Politics/dp/311079621X
Iran is More than Persia: Ethnic Politics in Iran analyses Iranian politics from a unique perspective, one that focuses on the relations between the Persian-dominated Iranian state and the country's ethnic minorities. The book explores the stability of the ruling regime in light of the challenges that multiethnicity brings. Persians comprise less than half of the population of Iran and more than 40 percent of Iranians lack fluency in the Persian language. An overwhelming majority of non-Persian groups inhabit most of Iran's border regions; as such the book explores Iran's foreign policy toward neighboring states that share co-ethnic populations. Iran's ethnic minorities inhabit the state's poorest provinces and the country's growing environmental and water supply challenges hit the ethnic minority provinces harder than the Persian center, adding an ominous ethnic character to what are often presented as purely environmental or economic challenges. The book further examines the potential impact of ethnic based unrest in Khuzestan on Iran's oil production, Iran's main oil producing region. Drawing on a rich assortment of primary data and interviews, this book offers unparalled insights into ethnic politics in Iran. It will be of interest to upper-level undergraduates and postgraduates, researchers and professionals interested in the Middle East, international relations, and ethnic studies.
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| 1:01.7 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel with Professor Brenda Schaefer, Dr. Schaefer at the |
| 1:07.6 | Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Right now, the author Brenda Schaefer, is here for Iran is more than Persia, ethnic politics in Iran. |
| 1:16.9 | This is a revelation about a state that the whole of Eurasia regards as a threat. |
| 1:23.5 | Iran is now providing war-fighting material to Russia, to attack Europe, Ukraine. |
| 1:30.8 | In effect, not even in effect, Iran is at war with NATO right now. |
| 1:36.2 | So what does that mean about Iran's strength, internal strength? |
| 1:39.8 | I learned from read in his book that the Persians, that Tehran Persians dominate the country in an imperial |
| 1:47.2 | fashion that is indistinguishable from the two shahs, that is indistinguishable from the sovereign |
| 1:53.9 | powers of kings. Brenda, you pose the democracy conundrum, that these ethnic minorities are not going to stay loyal to |
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