PREDATOR STATE: 4/4: Iran is More Than Persia: Ethnic Politics in Iran Hardcover – by Brenda Shaffer (Author)
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🗓️ 3 September 2023
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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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| 0:56.0 | Well he was participating in the World Cup. |
| 0:59.0 | We're told now that he is detained and possibly will be condemned to death for his enmity with God. |
| 1:07.0 | I think that's the accusation they make, that's the English translation of the crime. |
| 1:12.0 | We already know that young people have been executed brutally by the regime for enmity with God in these round protests. |
| 1:19.0 | Soccer football, Brenda, what is the tractor soccer team and who are the tractor fans? |
| 1:27.0 | Right, so ethnic politics really plays out in the soccer field in Iran. |
| 1:34.0 | I mean, it's actually pretty logical because the soccer stadium is a place where 30,000 people can come together without a permit, |
| 1:44.0 | without planning, without sending out invitations. |
| 1:49.0 | So for years, soccer stadium of a tractor, for years, their name was tractor Tabriz, the name of the team. |
| 1:58.0 | Tabriz is the largest Azerbaijani populated city in Iran. |
| 2:02.0 | They changed their name to tractor Azerbaijan, which I think is significant. |
| 2:07.0 | It's not just a city but a land. |
| 2:11.0 | And for at least 15 years, the soccer stadium has been a real arena of ethnic protests, ethnic politics in Iran. |
| 2:22.0 | And chanting and calling to bring in a lot of women into the stadium. |
| 2:27.0 | But all done in the case of tractor in the Azerbaijani language, Azerbaijani flags, burning of Armenian flags. |
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