Protests are spreading across Iran, demanding regime change. The inflation rate is around 50%, but the salaries have not increased. Unemployment is at a record high. The average Iranian is living beneath the poverty line, struggling to buy basic proteins.
However, Iran’s ethnic minority groups – whether Azerbaijani, Kurdish, Ahwazi Arabs, Baloch, or Turkmen – are not joining the protesters in large numbers. On the surface, it does not make sense, since regions such as Balochistan, Kurdistan, South Azerbaijan, and Arab Khuzestan suffer from high unemployment, vast poverty, environmental degradation, and the same high inflation rate as the rest of the country. In fact, they suffer even more from it than the average Persian does.
Iran colonized not only South Azerbaijan but also Kurdis
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