How Iran’s Ethnic Divisions Are Fueling the Revolt
Iran’s non-Persian minorities, largely overlooked in Western coverage, are playing an outsized role in the protests that erupted after Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody. Brenda Shaffer writes that security forces have killed a disproportionate number of minority protesters, including a massacre of Baluch worshippers in Zahedan, and argues these ethnic fault lines may determine […]