OPINION: How Iran’s new education proposal silences and criminalizes non-Persian languages

Wed 31 July 2019: For many decades, successive Iranian regimes have perpetrated injustices against non-Persian peoples who make up approximately half of the country’s population. Indeed, the Islamic Republic chose to follow in the footsteps of the Shah in terms of promoting Persian ethnic supremacism. Since its inception, the regime has enacted a number of … Continue reading OPINION: How Iran’s new education proposal silences and criminalizes non-Persian languages