Quiz
Ziggurat of Chogha Zanbil. Ziggurat means "to build on a raised area“ It was built about 1250 BC by the king Untash
Ziggurat of Chogha Zanbil  is an ancient  Elamite  complex
Model of Ziggurat of Chogha Zanbil.
In 1979, Ziggurat of Chogha Zanbil  became the first Iranian site to be inscribed on the  UNESCO   World Heritage List .
University of East Anglia
The Ziggurat Building in the city of West Sacramento
The Ziggurat Building in the city of West Sacramento
John C. Hodges library at The University of Tennessee
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York City
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York City
The SIS or MI6 building at  Vauxhall Cross , headquarters of the British  Secret Intelligence Service
The SIS or MI6 building at  Vauxhall Cross , headquarters of the British  Secret Intelligence Service
Poverty and Human Rights of Minorities in Iran  BY Iranian Minorities Human Right Organisation  (IMHRO)
Why Minorities are important?
Minorities and democracy, we should remember that: No democracy is real without minorities’ right practised in it truly Democracy is not only about majorities, it is also about minorities  We can not call a country a “Democratic” when it suppressing its own minorities
Iran in Middle East: The term "Middle East" may have originated in the 1850s in the British  India Office , [1]
Origin of the name Iran On  March 21 ,  1935 ,  Iran  was officially accepted as the new name of the country. After Dr.  Hjalmar Schacht , the Nazi Economics minister, commented on the Aryan origin of Persians, Reza Shah's ambassador in Germany encouraged him to issue the above-mentioned decree, asking all foreign delegates to use the word "Iran" (meaning "Land of the Aryans") instead of "Persia" in formal correspondence.  The History of Iran, Elton Daniel, p.3
 
Ethnic Minorities in Iran More than 50% of population is non Persian Arabs 6 m Baluches 6 m Kurds 10 m Lurs 5 m Persian  14 m Turks 25 m Turkmen 4 m Talysh 2 m Total 72 m
Religious Minorities in Iran Sunni Jews Christian Bahá’í Zoroastrianism Sufi Mandaeism Buddhism
Baluch
Baluch in Iran
Baluch man hanged
Yaghub Mehrnahad
Bahá’í
Mojdeh Azizi, of Newcastle, with a photograph of her father and uncles, who were executed by the Iranian government for being members of the Baha’i faith.
Bahá’í
Iran charges 7 members of Baha'i faith with spying for Israel
Turkmen
Turkmen
Fishermen
Turk (Azeri)
Turks
Farhad Mohseni Negaristan
Jews: Babak Tehrani: 12 Persian Jews who were kidnapped by the Iranian secret police between 1994 and 1997 and have not been heard from since.
Kurds
Kurds: Kaveh Kamangar
Kurd: Ebrahim Lotf Allahi
Kurd: Mohammad Sadigh Kabodwand
Christian: Tina Rad
Christian: Flogging
LGBT`:  Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni, 14 and 16 years old
The album  Fundamental  by the British musical group  Pet Shop Boys  is "Dedicated to Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni".
Women right: Pregnant Woman executed
Restricted Islamic dress code
Restricted Islamic dress code
Nafisa Azad: Arrest and harassment of women right activists
Zahra Bani Yaghub:  a medical doctor and well-known campaigner for women's rights, was arrested in Hamadan, west of Tehran, and died after 24 hours of torture and alleged rape.
Funeral of Zahra Bani Yaghub
Robert A. “Bob” Levinson  US Citizen Missing in Iran since March 2007
Case Of Ahwazi Arabs Poverty and Human Right of Minorities in Iran
Ahwaz in Statistics %33 of total water in Iran %90 of Revenue of Iran %15 of proved oil reserves in the world 2nd Gas Reserves in the world after Russia Population 5 million people %90 of population living under poverty line Most of fuel for WW1 and WW2 came out of Abadan refinery
%15 of proved oil reserves in the world
William Knox D'Arcy
 
 
Unemployment is high and Arabs banned from working in oil industry
 
 
Water Problem
Marsh Arab
 
 
Huge dams taking water for Persian area
 
 
 
North of Tehran
 
Political Freedom: 17 years old Ali Afrawi
1925 occupation of Ahwaz by Persian
First oil well in Middle East April 1908
During last Shah of Iran
1979 Iranian Revolution
1980  Massacre of Mohammareh
Iran Embassy siege in London, 1980 led by Iraqi security service
Freedom of speech and communication
2005 Intifada or Demonstration
2005 Intifada or Demonstration
Reisan Sawari
Reisan Sawari
Iran National-Socialist Party
 
Iran National-Socialist Party
Iran National-Socialist Party
Women Right: Ma’soumeh Ka’bi  Mother and 5 children
Lack of investment in area
Food crises
Education
Land Confiscation
New cities Persian
Environment
8 years Iran Iraq War 1980-1988
2 millions displacement
explosive remnants of war (ERW) specially unexploded ordnance (UXO)
explosive remnants of war (ERW) specially unexploded ordnance (UXO)
Mine fields: at least 20 million mines
Dates palm farms suffered
The Petrochemical Economic Zone (Petzone)   The Petrochemical Economic Zone (Petzone) is located on the south-west of Iran at Arabic Gulf shore, within the boundaries of Mahshahr, a district of Bandar Imam Khomeini (BIK) .It covers an area of 2000 hectars (4940 avtes).
Petrochemical factory
Pollution
Sand Storms
Pollution
Mandaeism the followers of John the Baptist (Sabians )
Baptism
The only people which still speak  Aramaic
 
Sign of Mandaeism
 
Mandaeism Baptism
Mandaeism Baptism
 
 
 
 
 
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