Why they publish this news instead of remain in secret?
I think it's a way to criminalize protesters.
If you are protesting due to water shortages, you are a "Zionist regime" collaborator.
A way to criminalize protesters.
There are many other possible rationales for making the news public, other than a supposed attempt to criminalize protests.
The main logic behind publishing the information is to raise the awareness of those ordinary, legitimate protesters about the fact that foreign-backed terrorist and separatist elements are trying to hijack their mobilization for sinister aims. That these foreign-backed terrorists might use snipers against them and then blame state authorities in hopes of artificially and baselessly galvanizing public anger against the Islamic Republic. When learning the truth, protesters will have fewer chances of falling for the criminal games of these outlaws.
Persian Tehran rulers dont give a sh*t about non-Persian common people in others Iran zones.
I think protesters have real reasons to complain, but they have not enough Persian ethnicity to be listened by Tehran authorities.
They are separatist because they are second-class non-Persian citizens.
Every ruler should have the same ethnicity than governed people, because all we know what happens in others cases.
Now this is incorrect. In Iran, so-called "ethnicity" plays no role, neither on the institutional nor on the societal level.
Firstly, note that upwards of 60% or 70% of Iranians are of mixed linguistic backgrounds - by that I don't mean mixed with foreigners, but of multiple local regional Iranian origins. If you took a survey of Iranian users on this very forum, it would already show that the great majority among them won't be able to claim that all their four grandparents originate from one and the same sub-national linguistic group.
Secondly, in this regard there's no discrimination at the governmental level either. Just observe the composition of Iran's successive cabinets and state administrations: they literally reflect Iran's sub-national linguistic composition in a fairly proportional manner. And most of all, there's one case which in and by itself is enough to end any sort of polemic on the subject: the fact that Iran's Supreme Leader himself, is of Azari descent and is himself a speaker of the Azari Turkish language, language in which he has publicly recited poems and eulogies to the Imams of Islam (as).
Thirdly, the province under discussion, Khuzestan, is in fact one of the wealthiest ones in terms of per capita GDP! Whereas some provinces with large a Persian-speaking majority such as Yazd, are among the poorest of Iran. So even when it comes to the distribution of wealth and development indicators, inequalities are not following linguistic lines.
Fourthly, the Islamic Republic, by virtue of its Islamic ideology, is even more guaranteed not to be inclined towards any sort of "ethnic" consideration in its governance of the country.
Lets see you Spaniards give the Basque independence first before you come here and preach your Bull **** here to us. Ok?
They wouldn't even need to grant them independence. It would be sufficient for Madrid to allow a Basque or Catalan to be crowned as the king of Spain, like an Azari is the Supreme Leader of Iran.
This said, I will insist that have nothing against Spain and the Spanish people. I only drew the comparison to put things into perspective, but Spain has every right to oppose separatists working against its territorial integrity.
Due to that it's a bad idea multicultural states. Every ethnicity should have a state who defend them.
Btw Basque people has the same ethnicity than Spanish people.
Iran is as mono-ethnic as it gets.
Here's a representation of the ethnic mapping of Iranians, based on a quite recent but seminal academic study:
It appears clearly that the bulk of Iranians form one large ethno-racial group, with insignificant, truly incremental regional shades. Even Arab-speaking Iranians prove to be genetically Iranian rather than Arabic and Semitic. The three groups with more marked genetic specificities, ie Baluch / Sistanis, Turkmen as well as Persian Gulf islanders, represent small minorities, the total of which does not exceed some 6% of Iran's population.
The strong genetic similarity of Iran's linguistic groups is one thing, the other is the fact that they have a common history as a single people living under a unified state, which goes back several thousands of years.
Why Tehran gov doesnt invest in desalination plants to get fresh water in those zones? Because are non-Persian people zones.
This is what make a state who care about their people (instead of killing protesters who ask fresh water).
Iran's first and only desalination plant so far opened at Bandar Abbas, whose population is partly composed of Arab-speakers, and which is also located in the south of Iran, where temperatures rise to extreme levels in summer. It is therefore inadequate to gauge these issues through an "ethnic" lense.
Also, Iran is pretty much investing in additional desalination plants? Iran happens not to be as wealthy as Saudi Arabia, whose per capita income from oil exports is several times greater than Iran's. At the same time, Iran has more than two times the population of Saudi Arabia.
Plus, contrary to Saudi Arabia, Iran is under stringent sanctions for refusing to bow to the zio-American empire's hegemonic rule. Meaning that it has to indigenize sensitive and/or strategic technologies like water desalination, which hardly anyone will be willing to sell to Iran unlike Saudi Arabia.
This takes time. But Iran's efforts have born fruit and the know-how was successfully acquired by Iranians. Now the process of constructing the corresponding plants is underway.
If your state can't guarantee you water and electrity with 50º Celsius temperature you have every right to be separatist.
Who needs a state that can not offer you something so basic?
Any separate state entity on those lands would be likely to face the same issue. Let's not forget that the water question is a region-wide problem these days, which in various forms is affecting all states in presence.
However, Iran did not fail at providing her citizens, including those in Khuzestan, with drinking water. It's water for farming which is temporarily in short supply, but this too will be fixed pretty soon.
Basque people are not thirsty of fresh water
.
I don't think that these sorts of landscapes and natural climatic conditions
can truly be compared with these
when it comes to water scarcity.
This is what make a state who care about their people (instead of killing protesters who ask fresh water).
Nobody was killed simply for asking for fresh water. What is more, of the 5 people who are reported to have lost their lives when the original post of this thread was published, one was a police officer martyred by terrorists, who actually was very involved in helping locals out with their daily needs in terms of water; a second one was regularly frequenting Basij gatherings and was therefore supportive of the Islamic Republic, which makes it probable that he too was shot by terrorists; and a third one turned out to have been a member of "I"SIS...
Many things are wrong with this map. In reality and contrary to what these types of maps suggest, there's is no clear cut separation of linguistic groups across Iran's geography. Large cities, where a considerable percentage of the population is living, are linguistically mixed. Also, what color does the map allocate to the majority of Iranians, who in fact descend not from one but several different national linguistic communities? None, they are simply ignored.
In conclusion, rather than relying on narratives proposed by Iran's enemies as well as by those who parrot their line, I believe your understanding of current events would gain in integrating the facts exhibited in this post, which go a long way debunking "ethnic" talking points about Iranian society and politics, which are really misleading.
www.jpost.com
