Non-Persian Ethnic Minorities in Iran May Be Ripe for Revolt
Brenda Shaffer, then Senior Advisor for Energy at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), spoke at a Middle East Forum webinar on the size and significance of Iran’s non-Persian ethnic minorities. Her remarks drew on her FDD monograph, Iran Is More than Persia. Brenda argued that Western estimates of Iran’s ethnic makeup — often […]