Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  : …they are obliged to live in a separate part of town…; for they are considered as unclean creatures… During the Pahlavi dynasty an important factor in the economic improvement of the Jews was close relations between the Shah and the state of Israel. Details of this connection, and how

Iran   in agricultural engineering from Pahlavi University in Shiraz, attending with the help of a scholarship funded from outside the country. He is married with two daughters and a son. Martha, now 28, has studied library science. Ma'man, now 25, studied architecture. Payvand, 12 at the time of his

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   how harsh people could be. The previous government identified Persians as Aryans. Azerbaijani Turks and Semites are not, obviously, Aryans. The same thoughts carried on after the fall of the Pahlavi regime. Outside, we are considered foreigners. We are considered invaders. We

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That would be fantastic. At this point that would be welcomed by ethnic minorities in Iran as well as Azerbaijanis. From 1945 there was genocide in Azerbaijan after the autonomous region was attacked by the Pahlavi regime, and thousands of people were killed. Banning

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   ethnic groups are Iran's invisible population. For over 80 years, all non-Persian minorities in Iran have been victims of serious human rights violations. They have endured racial discrimination, forced assimilation, and suppression of their language and culture under both the Pahlavi