For decades, Iran's regime has neglected regions with non-Persian majorities. They remain underdeveloped, with high unemployment and inferior schools.
at the provincial office of Iran's Natural Resources and Watershed Management Organization in Tabriz chanting,"Lake Urmia is thirsty!"
This picture taken on Dec. 8, 2018, shows a general view of Iran's salt lake of Urmia in the country's northwest, which had been shrinking in one of the worst ecological disasters of the past 25 years.and their allies, these groups have also turned to resistance and could cause major headaches for the regime.of the population. The next largest group is the Azerbaijanis, which comprise up to a quarter of the population.
Over the years these groups have fomented sporadic protests. In 2005, thousands of Azerbaijanis demonstrated after state media caricatured them as cockroaches. In 2013, 2,000 Arabs
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